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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04
Report Of Commission to Investigate Packing
Houses Sent to Congress by the President

Washington, June 4-President
!, esevelt today transmitted to con-
e, the preliminary report of the
colLr. 'on appointed to investigate
he co, IN of the packing houses
A the etc., and the meat industry.
T. 'eport s. ompanied by char
acte, &c mes%z: from the presi-
dent, \ , follows.tt
To tKI, enate aid house of repre-
sentativeSha I transmit herewith the
report of JSc5.. Bronson Reynolds and
Commissioner has. H, Neill, spe-
cial committeeEi Som I appointed to
investigate into % conditions in the
stockyards of Chicago, and report
thereon to me.
This report is of preliminary ma
ture.
l submit it to you now because it
shows urgent need of immediate ac-
tion by congress in the direction of
providing drastic and thorough going
inspection by the federal government
of all stoclSyards and packing houses
and of their products so far as the
latter enter into interstate or foreign
commerce.
The conditions shown by even this
short inspections to exist in the Chi
cago stockyards are revelations.
1t is imperatively necessary in the
interest of decency that they should
be radically changed.
Under the existing law it is wholly
impossible to secure satisfactory re-
suits.
l urge the immediate enactment into
a law of provisions which will enable
the department of agriculture ade-
quately to inspect the meat and the
meat food products entering state and
interstate commerce and to supervise
the methods of preparing the same
and to prescribe the sanitary condi-
tions under which the work shall be
performed.
/ therefore commend to your favor
able consideration and urge the enact
ment of substantially the provisions
known as senate amendment, N. 30,
to the act making appropriations for
the department of agriculture for the
fiscal year. ending June 30, 1907, as
passed by the senate this amendment
being commonly known as the Bever-
idge amendment.
Signed. Theodore Roosevelt"
Commissions Report.
The following is the abstract of the
report Of J. b. Reynolds and Commits
sioner c. p. NeilI to the president on
the conditions in the Chicago stock
yards:
The report says tnat two and one
half weeks were spent in the investi-
cation in Chicago during which 1--WE
went through the principal packing
houses in the stock yards district, to-
gether with few of the smaller ones.
A day was spent by Reynolds in New
York City in an investigation of it's
leading slaughter houses"
The report says that in many of
the rooms where water is used freely
the floors are soaked and Shiny and
dark and dingy rooms are naturally
not kept suitably clean.
An absence of cleanliness was found
everywhere in the handling of meat
being prepared for various meat food
products.
Parts that are sent from the cool
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04
Guard Was Ambushed
by Striking Miners
FIVE HUNDRED SHOTS FIRED,
No ONE KILLED.
Foreign Striking Miners at Steuben-
billie, o., Made Some of the Guards
Take to the Woods-The Rest Stood
Pat.

Steubenville, o., June 4.-The armed
guard on duty at the mines of the
United States Coal Co. were ambush
ed by striking miners about IL: 80
o'clock this morning while marching
over the hills from Glenn's Run to
Coal Hollow. About 500 shots were
fired and four persons were wounded
but as far as known no one was kill
ed The miners were all foreigners.
Shortly after midnight sixty three
armed guards started over the hills
from Glenn's Run for Coal Hollow.
The strikers who were incensed over
an assault on one of their number,
gathered at a point about midway be-
tween the two mines. There were $50
men, all armed, and they secreted
themselves behind trees and rocks
along the hillside. The guard was in
single file and as the advance came in
view, one of the strikers fired I'm the
air. This was the signal and follow
ing 1t there was a perfect fusillade
from the concealed men. Many Of the
guards broke ranks and ran back to
Glenn's Run, but number stood
their ground md returned the fire.
two OF the miners werealso injured.
The situation is quiet now and no
more trouble Is expected.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04
NO EXECUTIONS.
A Denial of Sensational Rumors From
Scene of Mine Disturbance.

Douglas, Ariz.. June A telephone
message direct from the office of Col
onel Greene in Cananea denies the re-
ports that the ringleaders in the riot
were executed by Colonel Kosterlit-
sky and that Governor Ysabel had
been placed under arrest for having
brought American volunteers across
the boundary. So far as known only
three Americans and sixteen Mexicans
were killed during the disturbance. In
addition to the Metcalfs, Bert Rush Of
Bisbee was killed. Fifteen hundred
soldiers are on the way to Cananea
from the City of Mexico There was
no disorder yesterday or last night
and the situation today is peaceful.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04
ELEVEN we're KILLED
AN ELECTRIC CAR OVERTURNED
NEAR PROVIDENCE, r. l.
Passengers Returning from a Summer
Resort Were the Victims of the Ac-
cident-Some of the Injured May
Die.

Providence, r. l., June 4.--Eleven
persons are dead, a score seriously In
jured and many others slightly In
jured as the result of the overturning
of a crowded electric car at Moore's
Crossing East Providence, early Sun
day morning. More than 100 young
men and women, who had spent the
evening at Crescent park, pleasure
resort on the Providence river, six
miles below this city, were on a char
tered car returning to their homes in
this city, Olneyville and Thornton. II
is believed that two of the injured will
die.
The wreck occurred on the subur-
ban line of the Rhode Island Co.
The motorman in charge of the car,
w. j. Laucher, of Olneyvllle, although
experienced in his calling. was unfa-
miliar with the road over which he
was travelling for the first time.
Laucher was put in charge of the car
at the solicitation of the passengers.
members Of a Catholic society which
had been to Crescent park for an out
ing. The car, an open one OF heavy
build, was crowded with young men
and women.
Fog prevented q clear view OF the
road ahead and the motorman, unable
to see far ahead, and unaware of the
sharp curve below, allowed the car
to coast rapidly down the hill Sud-
denly he felt the car swing into the
curve and realizing the peril applied
the brakes and reversed the power.
The weight OF a number of men on
the running board and the momentum
sufTiced to derail the car and threw It
into the road twenty feet from the
track.
Seven Of the passengers were PIN
ioned beneath the car and instantly
killed. Those who were able began
the work of rescue. A large ioist was
utilized as a lever, a pile of stones
forming a fulcrum and the car was
raised from the ground just enough
TO permit the escape of it's imprisoned
passengers. Two persons had sue
ceeded in escaping when the joist
broke under the weight of the car,
and the heavy vehicle fell back kill
ing two Of the injured.
The rescuers again raised the car
FROM the ground, and by building q
pile Of heavy stone, kept IL in position
while the dead and injured were re-
moved Two of those taken out.
Jovin and ]. Atcherson, both of whom
had sustained fractured skulls, died
within an hour
Motorman Laucher was not arrest
ed. The police authorities said the
motorman was not guilty of negli-
gence In their opinion, inasmuch as
he was not familiar with the line and
did not know of the curve. This car
was in charge of Conductor Joseph
McQuade, who received serious In
juries.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04

Washington, June Arthur Rue
German, United States Senator from
Maryland, died suddenly at his resi-
dence here today. While Senator Cor
man had been i'll for many months,
he had shown some Improvement late
~ Heart trouble was the immediate
cause of his death. Senator German
long had been a notable figure in ma
tional congress. He first took his seat
in 1881 and served continuously for
eighteen years, and nearly all Of that
time he was leader Of his party in the
senate.
Arthur Pue German, democrat of
Laurel, was born in Howard county,
Maryland, March IL, 1899; attended
the public schools in his native coun-
try for a brief period; in 1852 was ap-
pointed page in the senate Of the Un-
ited States, and continued in the SER
vice of the senate until 1866, at which
time he wass postmaster; on Sept. /,
1866, he was removed from his posi-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04
Madrid Bomb ThrOWer
Committed Suicide
KILLED AN OFFICER WHO IDEN-
Titled HIM.
The Anarchist Was Endeavorina to
Escape in the Garb Of Working
man-8ody Taken to Madrid and
Exhibited.

Madrid, June 4,-The capture and
suicide Saturday night at Torrejon de
Ardos of Manuel Morales, the chief
suspect in the bomb outrage against
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria, adds
another dramatic chapter to the Incl
dents surrounding the royal wedding.
Morales was recognized in the little
town of Torrejon de Ardos, midway
between Madrid and Alcala. A guard
sought to detain him but Morales,
drawing a revolver, shot the guard
dead. Then he turned to flee, but a
number of the inhabitants of the town
were upon him and, turning the revolt
yer upon himself, he sent shot in the
region of his heart, expiring a few
minutes later. Senor Ouesta, pro-
prietor of the hotel, from the balcony
of which Morales threw the bomb,
viewed the body and completely iden-
titled 1t as that Of his recent guest.
1t was p. m. Saturday when
Morales, disguised in the garb of a
workingman, entered the station at
who was in charge Of the Office the
time the next train would depart for
Barcelona. He then sought food in a
nearby shop. His Catalonian accent
first attracted attention to him. It
was then noticed that his workman's
suit was entirely new and did not corr
respond in texture with that usually
worn by a person of his station in life,
his face and manners showing him to
be man of some distinction.
A private watchman from a neigh
borning estate chanced to be present
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04
HAD BUSY SESSION
GENERAL FEDERATION DISCUSS
ED FOUR SUBJECTS TO-DAY.
Morning Session Was an Interesting
One and the Topics Were Important
Conferences in Progress This Aft
ernoon on Subjects Discussed.

st. Paul, June 4.-Forestry, litera-
ture, women in the industrial world
and child labor were the subjects dis
cussed by the eighth biennial conven-
tion of the General Federation of
women's clubs, which is in session at
the armory here. The first subject
taken up was forestry There were
addresses by two men. Enos A. Miles
spoke on Our Faithful Servant and
Constant Friend, the Forest, and
George H. Maxwell spoke on Forestry
and Homecraft. Mrs. Lydia Phillips
Williams of Minneapolis, chairman OF
the forestry committee, then read her
report.
This was followed by the report of
Mrs. Williams Thayer Brown Of East
Orange, N. D., chairman of the litera-
ture committee. Prof. S. III. Clark Of
University of Chicago spoke on The
Spirit of Literature.
Following this came the industrial
session during which Miss Rheta
Childe Dorr spoke on The Relation OF
Women to Industrialism.
The child labor session closed the
morning session. The afternoon ses-
sion was devoted to conferences in
different rooms on subjects under
consideration at the morning session.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04
National Grain Dealers.

I Chicago, ILL.,, June 4.-The annual
convention of the National Grain
Dealers association opened here to-
day at the auditorium, with large del
egations from nearly every state in
the union. Ohio practically controls
the organization and has a larger del
egation than any other state. Many
matters of interest to the grain trade
viii be considered.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04
REVOLUTION STARTED.
Trouble at the Mines More Than a
Mere Strike.

Washington June A. - Walter
Thompson, American ambassador to
Mexico, has telegraphed the state de-
partment i'm answer to instructions re-
lative to the Cananea disturbances
that the outbreak there was revolu-
tionary in character, fomented from
headquarters at st. Louis, Mo.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04
SENT 1T TO HocH.
Burton Sent in His Resignation to tbs
Kansas Governor.

Topeka, Kas, June 4.-United
States Senator Joseph r. Burton of
Kansas, after conference here this
morning with several close friends,
placed his resignation in the hands OF
Governor Hoch. The resignation was
sent to the governor shortly before
noon.
A state politician OF prominence
who is In position to know said this
afternoon: Governor Hoch will
name Charles Curtis, congressman
from the first district, to succeed Bur-
ton, probably this afternoon"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04
o later shoveled up to be later con- q.
g verted into food products. @
o @
Its Recommendations.
The report urged:

The report urged:
A compulsory examination after
slaughter.
An Increase of inspectors for night
inspection and special work.
Legislation prohibiting the deelara-
tions of government inspection at
every stage of the preparation.
Prohibiting interstate transporta-
tfon of any meat or meat food pro-
ducts not inspected and labeled.
Consideration of the question of
specific labelling of all carcasses sold
as meat which upon examination after
slaughtering show signs of disease
but are still deemed suitable for food.
Recommends the study of the in
spection standards of other countries.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04
M'cUMBER's JOKER"
Conference Committee Threw It Out
Of the Rate Bill.

Washington, June 4.-The rate bill
without debate unanimous
ly rejected theamendment put into the
bill by Senator McCumber Of North
Dakota, substituting the word claw
fully" for regularly" The effect of
this change, it was charged, was to
provide for the widest kind of court
review
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04
BURTON RESIGNED
KANSAS SENATOR QUIT TO
AVOID BEING KICKED OUT.
His Action Will Remove the Neess.
sity of the Senate ExpeiIins Him Be.
cause of Conviction of Fraud in HE
Official Capacity.

Washington. June 4.--Senator Bur-
ton of Kansas has resigned from the
senate. After his recent conviction
for wrongfully using hisofiice had been
affirmed by the u. S. supreme court
the committee on privileges and cleo
tions reported favorably on his ex-
pulsion If he did not resign.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04

Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. White left for
st. Paul last night in response to a
telegram from A. A. White stating
that his wife, Mrs. A. A. White, had
been hurt in runaway accident to
the extent of broken arm and
shoulder. 1t is to be hoped that no
more serious injuries viii develop.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04

Mrs. r. A. Mitchell returned Sunday
from the east where she secured a
very beautiful stock of summer mil
linery for the new Front street store.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04

Grand Forks was well represented
here today. Among the visitors
from that city were: f. Morgan, r..
G. Bates, H. Edgerton and c. A. Allen.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04
TROOPS WANTED.

Sheriff Thinks Situation Is Serious at
the Mines.
Columbus, o.. June 4.-Sheriff voor-
hees of Jefferson county has wired
here for 100 soldiers TO be ordered
Immediately to the scene of shooting
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04

ing room to these departments where
the various forms of meat products
are prepared are handled with no re-
gard whatever for cleanliness.
Workers climb over the heaps of
meat, select pieces they wish and
frequently throw them down upon the
dirty floor beside their bench.
The report says that a radical defect
in the inspection system is that it is
confined at present by law to passing
on the healthfulness of animals at
time of killing but that meat that is
used in sausage and various forms of
canned products and other prepared
meat foods goes through many pro-
>cesses, in all OF which there is a pos
sibility of contamination through un-
sanitary handling and further danger
, through the use of chemicals.
During all these processes there is
no government inspection although
these products when sent out bear Ia
bells stating they have been passed
upon by the government inspectors.
The report says that the sanitary
provisions in the buildings are abom-
inable
o o Q o . o o o . Q o . o . o o Q
9 tuberculosis victims expector- o
q ate on the spongy wooden floors q
9 of the dark worlrooms from Q
Q which falling scraps of meat are .
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04
MAY SEND wARsHlP.
Norwegians Would Welcome One at
the Coronation of King Haakon.

Christiana, June 4.-The Norwegian
government authorizes the Associated
Press to state it would gladly well
come a warship of the United States
at Trondhjem on the occasion of the
coronation June % of King Haakon.
The question has been informally
discussed between the government
and the American consular and diplo-
matte representatives.
II. d. Schultz of Wahpeton is in
Fargo on business
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-06-04

Continued on Page sixl
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-24
MEMORIES OF THE PAST.
The Day Intended for Appropriate
Commemoration of the Deeds
of Heroes.

Memorial day was founded that
there might be a few hours in each
year set aside for the appropriate
commemoration of the deeds of men
who had been killed while serving the
country in the army or navy or who
had died since having so served. For
a number of years it was generally
and suitably observed. Then in some
places it ceased to be observed at all.
In many it was given up to bicycle
and horse racing and other sports and
festivities.
Diversions Of this kind have been
widely and properly protested against
as dissertations of the day. The pro-
tests seem to have had some effect,
for observance of the occasion prom
ises to be not only more general this
year than usual but also more appro-
pirate.
Contemplation of the courageous and
self-sacrificing patriotism exhibited by
past generations is to little purpose
If 1t do not Undue their successors
with a purpose to emulate them.
The men Of to-day have confronting
them questions almost as difficult as
any which have yet been dealt with
and the best way the sons can show
their appreciation of what the fathers
accomplished is by resolving to &C
about their work as citizens with the
same courage and in the same spirit
as their fathers went about theirs
Chicago Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-24
To the Nations Dead.

Long nave they lain meath the grass and
sod,
Those noble sons thai in battle trod.
No more the sound Of the bugle call
Shall quicken their steps to duty's all.
They only wait for the trumpet sound,
When the great and good shall at last be
crowned,
And the battle and strife of yesterday
Shall be lost alike to the Blue and Gray.
Ye who march on this day in May.
To scatter ~garlands of flow'rets gay
over the mounds of soft green sward.
Where sleep the brave in battle gored;
Know that to these ye W your land,
So scatter the buds with willing hand,
With thoughts of love while lips do pray
For the peace ard rest Of the Blue and
Gray.
| And let the flag on each grave rest,
OF him whose struggle made it blest.
| Those Stars and Stripes let proudly wave
Above each soldier honored grave.
For these are they who held them high,
| Caring not that they should die.
| So let the Union feel to-day
Thoughts of love for the Blue and Gray.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-24
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

THE Republicans in congress are
divided on every proposition that looks
towards reform, but they are all united
on the pork bill" and for the old
flag and an appropriation"
democrats are getting together
on the good old principles laid down
by Jefferson, and are united on the
Jackson and Tilden war cries of re-
trenchment and reform and turn
the rascals out"
THE Republican bosses, WHO have
been somewhat staggered by the jolt
the people have lately given them,
are appearing in the garb OF reforms
ers, so as to get their feet IN me
trough again.
The United State~ supreme
court has Endorsed the Democratic
contention that the railroads must
confine themselves to the transporta-
ton business, and not be interested in
coal mining or the selling of any COM
modify.
The southern cotton planters,
entirely unprotected by the tariff, are
quite prosperous and are organizing to
protect themselves from the protected
monopolists. How do the Republic
an standpatters explain this prosper
ity of the unprotected?
1t may surprise some people to
know that Uncle Sam has gone into
cement manufacturing IN Arizona, to
protect himself from the cement COM
bine, and is turning out hundreds of
barrels daily at a cost far below the
market price. And yet congress re-
fuses to revise the tariff, the tax on
cement being 20 per cent, and even
refuses to abate the tax to the suf-
| fering people of San Francisco.
President Roosevelt evidently
thinks that the Democrats will
elect a majority of the next con-
gress, for he is said to have de-
cided to call a special session aft
er the 4th Of March, for the purpose
of revising the tariff. He knows as
| WCil 40 lily OAO euu IL LIZ IbSpuDllC-
ans should again have a majority OF
congress it would be useless to call
a special session, for the standpatters
would be in control.
After three years Of GREATNESS
haste at Panama, including the maxi
ing Of a revolution on Washington
time, which is some hours ahead OF
Panama time, no general plan for the
construction Of the canal has been de-
vised. There has been some desultory
G'gging and a great deal Of caref'.l'y
considered lying in and about thu
isthmus and the canal, but 50 far
everything is up in the air, the presi-
dent having turned over the JOB Of
deciding upon the type OF canal to CON,
gresaL