Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1904-08-25

\E#Ll investigation OF
AY S1s occupations,
representing 81 in
G. D. WRIGHT dustries in S,42a
separate establishments. 1t showed
| an average increase in wages during
this period OF 1876 per cent. The in
ouiry into the cost OF living shows
that living for working mems families
having under $500 income per year
had increased during this period 1876
per cent. In order to ascertain this
average increase the labor bureau Sc
| cured the income and expenditure in
detail Of 1857 families In thirty three
States, retail prices being taken. The
statement shows that the 1861 families
consisted of an average Of 5,S1 per-
sons. and that the average income. for
the year 1901 was $S2T, the average
annual expenditure for all purposes
$76S, and the average expenditure for
food $326 per family. The principal
items Of expenditure were: Food. 42,54
per cent of the total expenditure; rent,
1895 per cent; clothing, l4.04 per cent;
and taxes, insurance, organization
dues, religion, charity, books and news
papers, amusements. sickness and
death, and intoxicating liquors. 14.51
per cent. Each family consumed $40
pounds of fresh beef during the year
of cost Of $50. The lowest average
price Of food from 1890 to 1908 was in
1896. The highest price was in 1902,
when it was 110.9 per cent of the aver
age price for the period. The average
cost of food per family in 1890 was
$S1s; in 1896, S296; IL 1902, $S44; and
I'm 1908, $S42.
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The Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion in the case Of the Denison Light
and Power Company against the Mis-
souri,. Kansas and Texas Railroad de.
cided that the freight rate of $1.90 per
ton on coal from the McAlester dis
trict Indian Territory, to Denison, Is
unreasonable" and should not exceed
S1.25. The commission also decided that
90 cents per 100 pounds was the just
rate for shipping horses from Bayou
Sara, La, to st. Louis, Mo-, instead OF
$LS0, the rate charged by the Yazoe
and Mississippi Valley and Illinois
Central Railway companies, and com
planned Of by G. NJ. Barrow. The rate
complained of is on less than car load
lots and upon an estimated weight Of
1900 pounds for each animal. The
commission recommends that the
weight Of the first animal be estimated
at 1000 pounds and each additional an
imal 1900 pounds.
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The federal government is generous
to its hired help and goes down in its
wallet to the extent Of $3,0O0O00 to |
give them a summer outing at the
seashore and in the mountains. This |
sum is for the army Of employees in
Washington alone, and does not in
clude the thousands of others who |
are on duty and ON the pay rolls in |
other places throughout this broad do
14lDCIdi Ia W udhcIS
that ten months in a year was long
enough for employees of the govern |
ment to work, and that thirty days
should be given for sickness and thir-
ty days additional for annual leave
to rest up from the laborious duties. |
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After legal battle of several years |
Admiral Dewey and his men who |
fought the battle Of Manila are to re
ceive their prize money for the cap
ture Of the Don Juan de Austria and
other Spanish property. In the Su- |
preme Court Of the District of Column |
bia Justice Gould signed an order con-
firming the report of the auditor in the
case, overruling all exceptions filed by
either side to the report. The amount |
of the property captured finally was
fixed at $1,657 ,355, sum considerably
in excess of what the government
claimed to be due Half of the amount |
will be paid to the captors, while the
remainder, as provided by law, will be
placed to the credit of the navy pen
sion fund.
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When Mr.. Knox takes his seat as
Senator from Pennsylvania he will
find four former cabinet officers in
the Senate before him. Senator Teller
of Colorado was Secretary of the In
terror under President Arthur, and
Senators Alger of Michigan, Elkins of
West Virginia and Proctor Of Yer
mont have each been Secretary of
War. Mr.. Elkins and Mr.. Proctor
were IN President Harrison's cabinet,
and Mr.. Alger served under President
Mckinley. The Secretaries of War
seem to come of. good, vigorous stock.
for seven of them, without counting
Secretary Taft, are still alive.
Too Hard on the Nerves.