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The daily Alaskan., 1904-03-01
PRICE 10 CENTS
STILL II
Young Corbett Becomes
 Worlds Champion

Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskan. 1
 San Francisco, Mar. 1.-Young Cor. bett, of Denver, won from Dave Sulli- van last night in the llth of the 20 rounds which were scheduled. The fight was for the worlds champic Tip of the lightweight class, and at e,ed more interest than any battle since Corbett won the champanionship of his class
 Corbett left the ring without scratch. while the fact that the referee stopped the fight was the only thing that saved Su livan's face from being pounded to a pu D.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-03-01
FIGHT ON
Germans Engaged With Na-
 tiVes in South Africa

Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskan
 Berlin, Mar, ] l-Colonel Leiutwein governor of Mormon, Southwest Afri. ca, has telegraphed the war depart ment that Major Esterhof's column on February 25 was engaged in a 10 hours fight with the Hereros, but the Hereros held their position and the Germans had to retire.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-03-01
DETAILS or THE BATTLE

Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskan z4. London A DaI! Telegraph rom aI8 Fearv 99 ays-Feen Japanese ships uons obarded Port morning The Russian cruisers and Nok accompanied by torpedo boats steamed out to meet the attack y @
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The daily Alaskan., 1904-03-01
MANY D FAD
fire Causes Loss of Fourteen Lives on
 Big Steamship Queen
Especial Dispatch to Dali Alaskan

Port Townsend March After suffering tl and storm the steamship Queen put in here to repc class passengers dead are:
 Miss Steiner, Clallam Wash drowned. Mrs. Adams Dix, exposure. Second class.
 D. Newsbery, Texas
 s. Buckley, drowned, and nine of the crew.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-03-01
SIGN II England and Spain Agree to A bitratiOn Treaty

Special Dispatch Go Daily Alaskanl
 London, March l-The Arbitration treaty between Great Britain and Spain was signed here on Saturday .ast
 Under che provisions Of the treaty any differences tbat may hereafter arise between -le countries will be sub mi,tcd To court of arbitration for ad- fustuaur
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MothOist. VIII Meet

The Ladies Aid of the Methodist church will meet with Mrs. Murchi- son tomorrow afternoon at 2;3O o'clock
The daily Alaskan., 1904-03-01

s. Buckley drowned, and nine of the crew
The daily Alaskan., 1904-03-01

anc children lowered them asked by t repairs They were hardly cast oohen The Queen them eapszed The passfgers and ued of the crew who rmaued aboa continued Columbia v ohght the flames and & the rough pointed blaze was unde control Enc boats Puget were then recalled The qeen then Fattery headed south and at ooche sight gale weather ed the steamship santa puca and ed with difficulty.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-03-01
Good Bs rCh ap

Lemp's St. Louis beer. $500 per duz CD, delivered. Idaho Liquor House. agents. Phone 59 tf
The daily Alaskan., 1904-03-01
Good Beer Cheap

Lemp's St. Louis beer, $500 per dog en, delivered Idaho Liquor House, agents Phone 59 tt
The daily Alaskan., 1904-03-01
LAPS WIN AGAIN
FI6GUS or Jap6ol1 ey--l AOuoS4o1<- 1Ao7ooo Ia
 gether again in Yellow seeF and +bo shiDs of the latter suffer seV0r6-- O--0
Especial Dispatch to Daily AIaskan)

T March One of of the war was folgA tween the Jan fleet on the Russian fleet and the land batteries the other off Port yesterday afternoon The Russians were Wor losing !" re.5o boat and sustaining damages 70 ships.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-03-01

E. R. Peoples is showing a fine new In" ot pc ure moulding Send your pie. ure- ih re for framing, cost mere rr1le.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30
Brain Leaks

Trying and failing is better than
never trying
Things that come easy are usually
the hardest to keep.
Money builds the house, but it is love
that makes the home.
1t is better to resolve and fail than
never to resolve at all.
You get closer to God by drawing
nearer to your neighbor.
There is vast difference between
swearing Off and remaining Off
If good resolutions were bread and
butter there would be an end to hun
ger.
The man with the. least money can
usually see the best places to make an
investment.
There is one good thing about build
ing air castles-it keeps the build
looking up instead of down.
Somehow or other the sermonette
smot:lered in a concert never appealed
to us on a Sunday morning.
Some people spend SO much time
telling how good they are that they
have no time to show how good thew
are.
Some people who hasten to LAY tn sir
burdens on the Lord" are awfully
slow il sivin-, Him credit for their
joys.
1t is hard to makeN the average
housewife believe that there is any
greater business calamity than cake
falling.
ma begins to get some idea of
how his wife works when he under
takes to dress the children in tho
morning.
Was there ever play SO enjoyable as
the hard work done while preparing
the presents for the little ones on
Christmas morning?
We hope to live long enough to see
the day when the amateur elocution-
lists will no longer recite "How Ruby
played It's a worse chestnut than
'Curfew shall not ring tonight
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30

OF the poor workman" The reverse
Is; true. The term of apprenticeship in
all trades is growing longer, because
more skill is constantly being demand
ed. Craft pride is on the increase, and
men are striving to make themselves
letter craftsmen because the more
skilled the man the better his pay. The
union merely says to the employer, IF
this man is good enough as a workman
TO work beside us, ne is entitled to SO
much wage, and if he earns il he should
be paid in proportion to his worth. Il
he does not earn the minimum. get. Z
man who will"
Nothing could be more fair to en-
p,oyer and employee
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30
New Years DAy

New Years day is swear off, day,
And o. that. some would do it
'Twould be so fine, o brother mine,
And we would never rue it.
Ii Standard Oil would give up spoil
And Steel would drop its grating
We'd shout with glee from sea to SC.
And burst our buttons laughing
Ii Baer would swear to treat us fair
And not with greed pursue us;
II trusts in wheat and sugar sweet
Would both no longer do us;
II all would say that from this day
'Twould be their chief endeavor
To treat us white. we'd ali delight
And give them praise forever.
If trust in shoes would now refuse
To squeeze us on the prices
Ii trust in meat should now repeat
Well ask but decent prices
Ii these would swear to treat us squar
Through Nineteen-five, and after.
Well all rejoice in loudeSt voice
Until we shook each rafter.
If trusts. today would each one say,
Wen gouge YOU folk no longer,
For be it known our love has grown
Each passing day much stronger"
here repeat il these words greet
Our ears this New Year weather,
We'd all arise in great surprise,
And then drop dead together.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30
CHRISTMAS At FALL RIVER.
A Cherries Day for Thousands of Tn
fortunate Victims of Greed

fortunate Victims Of Creed
The pathetic story of misery at Fall
River, hunger amidst plenty, is a sad
commentary on cur boosted civiliza-
ton, heavy blow to those VINO arc
Won't to pride themselves eli our !ligh-
ly evolved civilization. such rayeIa-
tons tend to shake the faith of the
most optimistic.
And yet we must not be cast down.
Surely the misery we see. not only in
fall River, but on every hand, is not
in accord with the Divine purpose. God
never wifled that The manv should suf-
fer while the few live in luxury If
We have great social aud industrial
inequalities it is the york of man
and not OF God. Ii the doing is the
work OF man, SO likewise must be the
undoing. Let us then be men, not
brutes. Let US face tn, inevitable
problems with the determinations that
we have task before WHICH we NAV
not Tor one moment falte,. If there
is anything inalienable III this world
il is the right to work, the right to
live, the right to a job. AS the Dec
aratior OF Independence more elo-
quently stated it. the right to life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness.
These political and social questions;
are not simply for the acadenician,
the ions-haired dyspeptic philosopher
the book-worm or the politician They
hold vital interest fo.' all OF us
whether saint or sinner, business or
professional men, high or low. What
are you doing today to relieve the suf-
ferirg of the people ?-Colu.nbu Press
Post
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30
Football Brains

A Chicago dispatch to the Kansas
City journal says Football play
crs, according to Jere Delaney, trainer
OF the Northwestern eleven, are sub
ject to an ailment similar to soften
ing of the brain, which leads not only
to the making of peculiar statements,
but causes strange actions which some
times are amusing.
The exact cause of the trouble,
Trainer Delaney said. he is unable
TIC fathom. He declared, however,
that it results more from the long con-
tinued physical and nervous strain to
which the men are subjected during the
three months of rigid training which
they are forced to undergo than from
the blows, kicks and bumps they re-
ceive on their skulls during games.
1T is known said Delaney. that
every player of the game fights his
games over again in his dreams, but
only by the men who are in close
touch with the players it is recog-
nized that they are given to constant
dreaming, during which they make
strange motions, as if struggling with
an imaginary opponent.
According to Delaney, the athletes
are given to almost childish methods
of play when at rest. An instance re-
lated by the trainer was of a man who
during more than hour pored over a
map of the United States, drawing
lines with his index finger and imag-
lining he was travelling over the coun-
try which his finger crossed.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30
FIRED UNION MEN.
Contractor Campbell Fights the Building
Laborers' Union With Big Stick.

Contractor Campbell Fights the Building
Laborers' Union With a Big Stick.
There are no members of the He'd
Carriers and Building Laborers' Union
working on the new cold storage plant
these days. Several were until last
Thursday morning, when the contrac-
ter, c. D. Campbell, happened to find
out that the men were organized and
organizing, and then there was trou-
BILE.
why didn't you consult me before
joining unions?" asked Campbell of
way take an interest in my men
IF we waited for the Losses to con-
sent | guess we'd have a union in
about thousand years. said the en-
ploye.
Last Friday night several OF the Ia
borers on the cold storage job joined
the union, and on Monday when there
was no work, those who had joined
sign applications for membership.
When Contractor Campbell found it
out he waxed wroth. no union la
bcrers for him! And he tired the union
| men bodily and took N non-union
nen.
The bricklayers had & little trouble
right there, owing to tho TACT that a
| carpenter foreman had become some
what officious. They laid down their
tIowels and notified Campl ell that they
wouldn't work with the aforesaid man
Lutting in. That trouble was quickly
settled aid the bricklavars went back
to work But the union laborers were
jobless.
The discharged men arc not dis
mayed. They are hustliEg around to
perfect the organization If the building
lsborers before spring. and when they
feel strong enough to furnish all the
help needed will ask the support OF
ether trades i'll demanding, recognition.
i've got nothing against unions
made up Of skilled men, said Contrac-
tor Campbell, 'if they don; try to run
q mans. business. But when common
laborers organize they always raise the
devil. l won't stand for it,
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30
A Great Scheme

Just before Christmas Wages was
dead broke and as blue as an indigo
bag. When a fellow is broke, out OF
a job and long ways from home it
is not at all strange that he should
feel blue. And Wages was awfully
blue because he was broke, jobless
and an awfully long distance from
home.
He planned by The hour how to make
& stake, only to discard each plan al
most as soon as it suggested itself to
his mind. Just when he was about to
give up in despair a brilliant thought
struck him. He proceeded to put it
into execution, and now Wages is roll
ing in riches and a thousand people
have been made happier.
The plan was simple enough, and
the wonder is that it had never been
worked before.
AS soon as his plan was fully evolved
Wages rushed to printing Office and
had several thousand neat circulars
printed. Taking city directory he
sought the names of several hundred
friends and acquaintances, and each
one received q circular 1t was headed
"a Christmas Exchange" ana the
body of the circular explained the
scheme. Briefly it stated that people
often received duplicate Christmas
presents, and that while man often
received a half dozen things he didn't
want he did not receive some one thing
that he really needed. The idea was
to have an exchange of the duplicates
strict secrecy being assured. All that
needed to be done was, for a man to
tell what he had that he didn't want
and name something he wanted that
he didn't have. Wages was to make
the exchange. eXacting a small COM
mission from each party to the ex-
change
For a week after Christmas he
worked twenty-four hours day, and
even then had to employ a number OF
assistants. DENLY. who wore a full
beard, traded off handsome shaving
set sent by a distant friend, for dress
suit shield sent to Billby, who wouldn't
wear a clawhammer coat under any
| circumstances. Mrs. Flutterly snapped
a duplicate bridge whist outfit for q
jardineire received by Mrs. Willowby
who had SO many already that she
had to keep some in the cellar. Smith
son, vino abhorred tobacco, snapped d
smoking set for a set of Thackery re-
ceived by Thompson, who detested
anything in the reading line outside OF
| the daily newspapers and the maya
zines.
Men who had received copious guam
titles of pretty little embroidered do
dads that they. didn't know how tc
use traded them Off for card sets
smoking sets and fountain pens re
ceived by dainty boys who wanted tG
litter Up their dressing rooms with
pink ribboned things. And every time
a trade was made Wages drew down a
liberal commission FOR his trouble.
Wages made enough out OF the
scheme to keep him in comfort until
! another Christmas. His scheme is not
patented, ind as it confers; blessing
ON puzzled humanity there is seeming
ly no reason why it should not be
| worked in every city and town in the
country.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30
THE LINOTYPE REVOLUTION.
How the Printers Met the Machine Half
Way and Won a Victory.

Way and Won a Victory
In little pamphlet reprinted from,
the Yale Review under the title, THE
Introduction of the Linotype" George
z. Barnett of the Johns Hopkins uni
yersity gives the results of a careful
study OF the use of typesettinG ma
chimes i'll this country tina: is OF inter
est to more than those Immediately
and directly concerned.
The linotype revolution was a reyo-
lntion as quick and as complete as
Tny phase OF what is k:i0wn as the
Industrial revolution. In 1887" says
Mr.. Barnett, "typesetting as essentially
the same art as in the sixteenth cen
tuly. While other branches of the
printing trade had been rcvolutiC,iizcd,
the compoSitor had not advanced III
his processes beyond the point he had
reached four hundred years before.
Since 1890 machine composition has
L2en rapidly supplantin:y typesetting
by hand. The ,s1achine Is still con-
stantly encroacning on the field OF the
land compositor, hut the Period OF III
PRODUCTION may be properly considered
as concluded with the year 1900. By
that time the Graf; had adjusted itself
to the new conditions and the future
trend of events could be foreseen with
some clearness.
How this was al: brought about with
the least displacement of iabor-and utii-
lied by skillful maneuvering by the
typographical Union not only to secure
control OF mechanical typesett;ng for
its members. but also 70 lift up the
workers remaining at hand compost
lion to better pay and shorter hours
is described in analytical detail Ii was
Gene by the adoption ct a policy By
the unions meeting the typesetting MA
chine hall way instead IF fighting it
from the beginning, by giving the hand
ccmpositor the first CHARGE to learn
the mechanical trade and ly agreeing
nth the employer to share the cost
OF transition.
Whether the linotype revolution
could have been accomplished as sue
ccssfully in the face OF en- opposition
from the trades organization OF the
:iand compositors is perhaps q specula-
tive question, but the author OF this
study ventures the opinion that the
l.olicy OF the printers has not succeeded
alone through the power OF combina-
ton. He found that although in the
carly years much was SaiC. about the
possibility OF opera ting Eat hines with
,.nskilled labor the expo iment when
led in several cities was quickly fol-
lowed by an abandonment OF the at
tempt to recruit linotype operators
from this class of labor, nor has any
serious effort been made to replace men
with women. THE real merit" he
concludes, of TIC policy of the Typo
graphical Union was that it secured
Tor its members an opportunity to show
to the employer that the union printer
was more profitable than the unskilled
workman as a machine operator. =
Omaha Bee.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30
"thank you in tired tone of

says thank you in tired tone of
voice.
The merchants who litter up your
front porch with cheap dodgers i'll
these days of good newspapers.
The men who think that being Il
good fellow" consists in deprivinS
his family of comforts in order Ito
keep up show of Hberality down
town.
The man who thinks that checking Il
horses head uD until it.; nose sticks
straight out in front adds to the APP
pearance Of the animal.
The young lady who has to be coaxed
for an hour to play and then keeps it
up Indefinitely after she gets started.
The maker of the railroad time cards
who thinks that it is his duty to make
his tables as difficult of Interpretation
as possible.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30
Bostonesque

Did Santa Claus bring you every
thing you wanted. Johnnie?"
Il asure you, madame" replied John
Beaconsfield Hill. etat S, of Back Bay,
Boston, that | expressed no wish as
to what the mythical. parsonage, Santa
Claus, should deposit in my hosiery. be-
cause Of the fact that I am quite well
aware without any equivocation that
Santa Claus exists only in the imagi-
nations of the mentally deformed, and
the iGea of suspending any article OF
my wearing apparel for the purpose OF
having it used as receptacle for tok-
ems OF affection is repugnant to one
who is deeply interested in the study
of disease germs and microbes, to say
nothing OF -"
But the inquirer had tainted away.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30
THE UNION SCALE

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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30

Among those whom We wish would
swear Off on New Years day are:
The fellow who thinks it funny tC
tie huge placards to the trunks of a
newly married couple.
The fellow who says rude things un-
der the impression that he is blunt and
plain spoken.
The woman who spreads her skirts
out over enough street car space to
keep three tired men standing for
thirty-seven blocks.
The youth who thinks you wonder
how he can inhale SO much cigarette
smoke all at once.
The clerk, who, after he gets youl
money and hands out your package
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30
Unanimous

Everything is getting higher these
days." complained Snubbly.
That's right" replied Jaggsly. Il
found the bottom OF my coal house
awfully close to the top this morning.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30

Deacon Grabhard-"Rev. Du Goode
says he doesn't believe in raising
money by church fairs, suppers, lot
teries and concerts
Deacon Pinchpenni-'H'm! He's al
together too conscientious for min
ister.''
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-30
lo6 NORTH FOURTEENTH ST.


* e e ~ ~ .%.s - - - - - - - - .S
x N Nchants who advertise in -
- thu labor papers show that l"
u they care for the union mans ~
X traie. Patronize those who =
- are wiling to help you. "
* Red the advertisements in "
* THE WAGEWORkER, and ii ~
,S You need of anything in their .S
l% line, visit their stores and "
.s make your purchases, and tell -
:. them why you came there. -
- We desire to particularly i'm ~
" press this matter upon the -
- wives and daughters of the ~
.S union men, as they do most OF :"
eS the purchasing. "
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-04
Seeing Sights
of the Big Fair

St Louis. Nov. 3.-In his quiet and
thoughtful moments John has been re-
volving this airship problem in his
mind. 1t is mostly a revolving prob
lem, anyway, for the propeller goes
round and round and so does the air
ship. That's the way the Benbow air
ship went l presume that is what
causes circular insanity" among air
ship inventors. But l don't consider
myself competent to discuss the air
ship problem. 1t is a question that
takes one up into the clouds and as
John is the only member of the family
who scars" and the only one who has
a mechanical eye" Jane and | were
meekly resigned to the ordeal of hear
ing him expatiate upon it.
After looking at the airships that
fly and those that don't fly" said John,
while we were waiting for our tab
bley de hote dinner. Il have concluded
that they are big improvement on the
automobile. You see there is a good
deal more room in the sky than there
is in the street and not so many
chances of collision. If you see a yell
low sky-devil with four large green
eyes headed toward you all you have to
do is TO pull lever No. IL, which takes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-04
EFFECTS OF THE HIGH PROTECTIVE
TARIFF SEVERELY FELT IN JERSEY
While Trusts Flourish the Humble Working Glasses Are Every
where Laboring Under Conditions That Grow
Steadily Worse.

the employees of these mills had TO suf
fer in the sweeping reductions of sal.
aries TO which the steel corporation has
subjected it's employees within the last
year. Upon a considerable portion of
the salaries of the trusts employees
here there was reduction of 80 per
cent and 20 per cent reduction in the
wages of a still larger number of men.
In addition, the plant here has laid
off a large part of its force, and has
been running at not more than IS per
cent of its normal capacity for the last
twelve months. Practically the same
thing may be said of the Trenton Iron
company, which has only very recently
been absorbed by the steel corporation.
Rubber Business CurtnIIed.
This is a great rubber manufactur-
ing center. Located here are the large
plants of the Empire Rubber company,
the United and Globe company, the
Crescent Betting and Packing com'
pany the Home Rubber company, the
Grieb Rubber company, and the Hamil-
ton Rubber company. These factories
employ from 200 to 500 men each. Yet
every one of them is now complaining
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-04

Trenton, y. J., Nov. 4.-For the past
twelve months the state of New Jer-
sey has been experiencing the results
of a long continued period of high pro-
tective tariff. The situation in this city
is type of that which exists through
out the state In nearly every manu-
featuring establishment here business
is being done on reduced scale. Hide
bound republicans say that this is one
ofthe normal incidents of presidential
year. Others point out the fact, how
ever. that the presidential year in ques-
tion has already had its blighting eff
feet for more than year. The more
fair-minded see in conditions here a
strong argument in favor of read
justment of economic. conditions.
One finds in Trenton again the foot
steps of the United States Steel cor
poration. Located here is one of the
main plants of the American Bridge
company. a constituent of the steel
trust. These works employ between
5000 and G,000 men when running at
their normal capacity. The demand
for their goods is felt and expressed
all over the world. Yet every one OF