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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19
REAL ESTATE is NOW TOO HIGH.
The Duluth Evening Herald is

The Duluth Evening Herald is
rather over enthusiastic when it urg-
es an increase in the price of Duluth
real estate. If it's advocacy was d.
rected exclusively to business prop
erty there might be some merit to
its editorial of Monday evening last.
The workingmen of Duluth who
are anxious to become home owners
are ever discovering that the first
obstacle in the way Of acquiring a
home of their own is the already too
high price of desirable residence
property.
There is absolutely no truth in the
statement that Duluth residence
realty is cheaper than that of other
cities. Only recently we gave this a
personal investigation. We found
that lot in a workingman's resi-
dent district in Duluth was held to
be worth nearly six times more than
like lot in the same kind of dis
trict in Minneapolis; both lots being
equally the same distance by street
car from the business portion of the
city.
We found too that most of the
workingmen in Minneapolis were
home owners. while in Duluth it is
almost impossible to obtain a begin
ming in that direction.
There can be no healthy develop
ment in Duluth based on a specula-
tive increase in the price of real es-
tate. 1t is not the buying and SELL
ing of real estate that makes a city
prosperous. Industry is of the great
er importance. The greatest impede
ment to the development Of industry
is an excessive price on real estate.
We cannot appreciate the consist
ency OF the Herald when it in one
issue advises against an increase in
the assessed valuation of Duluth real
estate and in another pleads for an
increase in value.
BY no means must the price of
resident realty be increased at this
time. 1t would be blow to the true
progress of Duluth. This must be a
city of homes, and nothing to dis
courage home building should be ad-
vocated by any loyal Duluthians.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

The masterful way in which Mayor
Schmltz, the union-labor mayor of
San Francisco, has handled the terri
bic condition which has confronted
the city, reflects great credit upon
him, and shows that from the ranks
OF labor men can be found who may
be relied upon in great emergencies.
We need more union-labor mayors,
and we can have them If labor will
shake the scales from it's eyelids and
wake up to it's political power.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

DEFENSE was that when Il he oath was
administered To- witnesses III the POI
lice court case he stopped over and
tied his shoe string and thereby
avoided raising his hand and taking
the oath. and therefore he was not
"a sworn Witness. He testified that ID
was a common practice Of policemen
to bend over and tumble with their,
shoestrings when they wished to keep
from being sworn.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19
ST. LOUIS POLICEMAN
CONVICTED OF PERJURY

ST. LOUIS, May 16-Policeman John
Dyen, a witness in police court. case
was last night convicted Of perjury
In the criminal court and sentenced
to years in the penitentiary. Dyer's
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19
STEPS,

From the Washington Star: 81
you have been wonderfully success
full in evading the responsibility for your
country's boycott against Americon
goods" J.. II ...s
+. 1 Yes" answered Mr. Lii :Lo, the emf
nent Chinese statesmen. II learned two
very valuable things while studying civ
1l1zed life at Washington--the two-s step
and the side-step..s # 4S,3
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

making good is everything in
this world: you cannot expect to
succeed unless you do.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19
MUNICIPAL GARBAGE SYSTEM.

MUNICIPAL GARBAGE SYSTEM.
The workingmen OF Duluth are
badly stirred up over the proposal tt
grant ten year franchise to an in.
dividual for the collection of garbage
| throughout the city.
: There seems to be a necessity 70,
systematic and regular collection
OF garbage, and the very natural
thing for the ordinary municipality
to do is to call in some private bid
der; give him a franchise, and thus
create a private monopoly at the OK.
pense of the people.
But in Duluth we should do diff.
ferently. Here where municipal own,
ership and operation is proving 50
successful. Here where the idea has
ceased to be theory, who can con.
sistently oppose the municipal op-
GRAFTON of a garbage collecting sys-
tenn?
When we were advocating the mu-
nicipal purchase of the light and wa
ter plants we were confronted with
arguments by our opponents advis.
ing the city to start on it's public
ownership career by taking up the
small things. Now we have a splen-
did opportunity to satisfy the wish
es of even the most skeptical.
But the argument now is that the
city has no money? Obstacles like
this arise every time it is proposed
to do anything of real benefit to the
people. The money question was
not very serious problem when the
incinerator was required. Neither
will it be serious proposition at
this time to organize a garbage col
lection system, and this without any
very heavy expense to the city.
An outlay of $4,000 will be suffi-
Gent to start the work, and in one
year this can be returned to the
general fund. It is the height OF
folly to think that the people can
not take care of their own garbage
collecting.
Mr.. Root, the gentleman desiring
the franchise, says that those who
oppose his proposition are against
progress. Well that depends entire.
ly what definition is given the word
If to encourage a private monopoly
is progress, then Mr.. Root is right
But If to tighten the burden of taxa
tion and to provide means for the
protection of the people is progress
than a few progressive people are tc
be heard from next week.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

In this world of trial and tribula-
ton there is little room for the
crouch. Talk cheerfulness or hold
your peace. Nobody is interested
in your troubles.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

Your employer has right to ex.
pect just as much of your service as
he pays you for and no more. Give
him what is his due and see that he
does likewise for you.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

It's lot easier to slide down a ban
lister than to climb flight of stairs.
You can slide down to obscurity
without trouble but it takes climbing
to be somebody.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

A man is relieved and gay when
he has put his heart into his work
and done his best; but what he has
said or done otherwise shall give
him no peace.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

The man who likes his work we'll
enough to keep everlastingly at it
and take pains at every turn is a
safe sort of genius to tie to.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

To do the right thing at the right
time, in the right way; to do some
things better than they were ever
done before-that's a task worthy
any mans effort.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

Lots of fellows who are looking
for something soft forget all about
their own heads.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

The talent of success is nothing
more than doing what you can dc
we'll, and doing whatever you do
without a thought of fame.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

1t is seldom wise to do a thing
merely because another has done it.
Perhaps different circumstances were
involved.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

The girl who is not coquette
gives out the impression that she is
a very deep and scheming person.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

Being "a good fellow in the CON-
monly-accepted term is about the
most costly game that the foolish
young man can play.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

1t is not a sign of weakness to
seek advice of the man who has had
experience-it is a sign Of good
judgment.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

You have as much right to live as
has the millionaire, so see that you
get yours just as we'll as he gets his.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

A good appetite is the best sauce,
and honest labor is the best way to
attain it.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

The free thinker is the one who
can't convert his thoughts into
money.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19
ORDER FOR HEARING APP:
,TION OF ADMINISTRATCI

Il
TON OF ADMINISTRATOR -
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUN
st. Louis.-ss.~ In Probate
Special Term, May 10th, 1900
In the matter of the estate Oh
Van Fleteren, Deceased:
On receiving and filing the
OF Sene Van Fleteren of the ca
st: Louis, representing, amolM
tnngs, that Frank Van FletesX
OF she County of st. Louis, in ),
or Minnesota, on the Twelfth
April A.: D. 1906, at the; County
Louis, died interstate, and being "a
hhiaoltant of this County at the ii7sofi
ms death, leaving goods, chattelsNands
said petitioner is the wife of said de \
ceased, and praying that administers
ton of said estate be to Sene Vas
FIeteren granted;
IT IS ORDERED, That said petition.
be heard before said Court on Monday
the 18th day of June A.. D. 1906, at
ten o'clock a. m, at the Probate Office,
IN the Court House in the City Of Du-5
luth, in said County. -
ORDERED FURTHER, That notice
hereof be given to the heirs of said
deceased and to all persons interested,
by publishing this order once in each
week for three successive weeks prior
to said day of hearing, in the Labor
and published at Duluth, in said Coun-5
ty, and that copy of this order be
served upon the County Treasurer Of
st. Louis County not less than ten
days prior to said day of hearing.
Dated at Duluth, Minnesota, this 18th
day of May A. D. 1906. q
By the Court seq
DAVID H. LAWRENCE. sl~Ss5
Judge of Probate of Lake County.
Acting Judge of Probate Of st. EoN1
County, MINI.
(Seal Probate Court, st. Louis CoHHl
Mimi -
Labor World, May 10, 26, June 2, 1y|
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

When~you bury fault don't go
back to plant flowers on it's grave.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

WANTED or lady with
good reference, to travel by rail OF
with a rig, for firm of $3.50 100000
Capital: Salary. s1,072.00 per year
and expenses; salary paid weekly
and expenses advanced. Address,
q. with stamp, Jos. A. Alexander, Irz'
luth, Mimi.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

The greater the joy the shorter
it's duration.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19


have secured from the rest OF the
community for which they do 50
much, fair, DEMONSTRATING share
of the wealth they create. The life
we speak of is rather more than a
paunch and a guzzle. 1t is a man,
with a mans brain, a mans patriot.
ism, mans ambitions. Such a man
is not the product Of cornmeal and
sowbelly, with shack for a lodg.
ing, but needs for its production and
maintenance good wages and faif
treatment. Through the trades
unions he procures both; for both he
renders willingly more than an
equivalent.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-19

Honest work begets happy rest.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-14

ASk for the Brewery Botth1sg
Common beer Is sometimes substituted for Sctkks
To aVod being bosea boN that the cork or c>o4n is
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-14
CLAIMS RIGHT TO BEAT WIFE
Denver Man Resents Interference of
Policemen as He WeIds
Whip on Spouse
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
DENVER, May 13.-"rve got a right
to beat my wife and I'll beat her ten
times a day if 1 want to. It's nobody's
- business, see?"
The above declaration was made by
M. Stevens barber, 46 years old, who
has shop at Eighteenth and Stout
streets, where he lives with his wife
and 12-year-old daughter, to Policemen
Keyt and Malone, who arrested him on
charges of drunkenness and disturb
ance.
Mrs. Stevens told the police that her
husband had been in the habit of beat
ing her at intervals for the past fifteen
years and that he had buggy whip
which he kept for the exclusive pur-
pose of administering corporal punish
ment to her. The woman says she has
been almost driven to suicide several
times as result of the cruel treatment
accorded her by her husband and that
she is tired of enduring him, yet she
said she was unwilling to prosecute him
| because of her daughter, as her huS-
band provides we'll for the child. When
threatened with arrest as a witness
Mrs. Stevens agreed to appear against
her husband and was ordered to be in
the police court.
Surrounded by a crowd of women and
children of the neighborhood, who were
weeping, Walllng ana protesting Stren-
uously, on the sidewalk in front of his
shop, Stevens was beating his wife with
the buggy whip at 10 o'clock when the
policemen placed him under arrest. He
was plainly under the influence Of
liquor, and it was when the policemen
took the whip away from him and or
dered him to desist that he declared he
had the right to beat his wife. The pa
trolmen said there was not a man in
sight when they appeared.
Police Captain Carter, who was In
charge of police headquarters when
the case was reported denounced Ste
Vens. "It is one of the most brutal
cases." he said, "that has ever been
brought to my attention. What the
man needs is about ten minutes before
Judge Stapleton and he will change his
opinions about the right to beat his
wife as he would a dog"
Mrs. Stevens had many marks about
the head and shoulders as a result of
the beating. She says that the arrival
of the policemen was timely, as the
beatings administered to her in the past
have been most severe and she believes
that her husband was more enraged
last night than she has ever seen him.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-14
EDITOR TO FIGHT A TRUST
Lewisburg journal Dlsposes of Fuel
at Cost to Cut Prices-Com-
bine Shakes Fist
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
LEWISBURG, May 13-Fred Kurtz,
editor of the Lewisburg Journal, u
weekly Democratic newspaper, recently
donned the robe of reform and assailed
a local trust, a combination formed
by the Lewisburg coal dealers.
This trust had been charging high
prices for COAL and it seemed as though
there was nothing for customers to do
except to pay the rates demanded.
Editor Kurtz obtained the facts and
set them forth.
Several dealers, angered at the ex-
position, entered the printing office and
would have assaulted the editor had 1t
not been for Intervention; one even
went so far as to call the editor a cur
which he construed as being short for
| KurtZ.
A car of coal labeled the Lewis.
burg Journal appeared today at one
of the dumps, and the coal is being
distributed among citizens at cost. The
newspaper is determined to break the
trust and in this action it is sustained
by influential business men. Man
ager Lawrence of the Journal says The
paper will furnish coal at "hard-pan"
prices until the local dealers square
themselves with the public by reducing
the price of coal.
! Enraged coal dealers have stopped
their subscriptions to the newspaper.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-14
HAS PROFITABLE SKUNK FARM
Says One Skunk Produces as Much
Value as Cow or Hog.
GROWING Business

LOGAN, Kas., May 1S.-Logan county
has the distinction of having the only
skunk farm in Kansas. c. o. Graham
Is the man who successfully started
this new industry. On his farm a few
miles south of the town he has fenced
off twenty acres of ground which is
devoted exclusively to the raising of
these animals. Before building his
fence Mr.. Graham with a large szied
stirring plow, plowed six inch furrow
around the entire enclosure and laid a
strip of woven wire flatwise in it. After
connecting this piece of wire with the
upright fence he filled the ditch with
dirt.
The main fence is composed of woven
wire about two feet In height, from the
top of which extend horizontal bars
about a foot in length, every ten feet.
To these arms another strip of woven
wire is attached, making a sort of roof
to the fence. Skunks cannot get out by
digging below the fence, as they strike
the buried wire, and they cannot make
their escape by climbing over. as they
encounter the roof wire. When the
animal is once safely within this fold
he is sure to stay there until his hide
is amputated and his fat ground into
skunk oil.
Mr.. Graham says there Is more profit
in raising skunks than there is In cat
tie or hogs. 1t takes little OF nothing
to care for the animals, and the profit
from one skunk in one year is equal to
that of n COW or hog. They are prolific
breeders, and in their multiplication ig
the secret of their commercial value.
The owner of this farm intends to en-
large his skunk enclosure and keeps
continually adding to his flock by the
use of traps Set around the country. 1t
is a peculiar industry but a profitable
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-14
HIS OWN CHlLDREN's UNCLE
Mans Marriage to Dead Brothers
Widow Causes Odd Tangle
In Identity
to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
SPOKANE. Wash, May 1S.-1n the
marriage recently Of John Frederick
Demuth of Rossand, b. c., and his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary j. Demuth of
115 Montgomery avenue, relationships
about as complicated as could be I'M
agined were brought about. Mr.. De-
muth and an elder brother married sis
ters and both had children. AS a re-
suit almost every relationship In the
calendar now exists between the two
families.
To begin with in marrying his broth
er's widow Mr.. Demuth becomes a
brother-in-law to himself. He is uncle
to his own children and father of his
wifes children, who are also his nieces
and nephews by virtue of being the
children of his brother. Children of
the two families, of which there are
many, are cousins and at the same time
brothers and sisters. Mrs. Demuth is
aunt to her own children and mother
to her nieces and nephews. To compli-
cate matters Mrs. Demuth has a child
that was born of a second husband
named Martin.
The beginning of the present tangled
relationships started twenty-five years
ago in Germany when August Demuth
married the present Mrs. Frederick
Demuth's eldest sister. A. few years
later Frederick Demuth married his
elder brothers wife's sister. Ten years
ago August Demuth died, leaving a son
and a daughter, both of whom are now
grown. His wife married man named
Martin, who abandoned her and little
girl, now years old, was born of the
marriage. Mrs. Demuth resumed her
first husbands name after being de-
serted by Martin.
Last July Mrs. Frederick Demuth
died, leaving seven children, one of
whom is a grown daughter, now in
Spokane. 1t was the first intention of
Mr.. and Mrs. Demuth to be married in
British Columbia, but the legal codes
there are fashioned after those of the
Mosaic statutes, which made 1t un-
lawful for man to marry his brother s
widow, so it was decided to have the
ceremony performed in Spokane.
Only Mrs. Demuth'S children and q
few friends were present last night at
the ceremony, at which Rev. w. G..
Pettibone officiated. ''I think 1 am do
ing a wise thing in uniting these fam
ilies,'' said the bridegroom and father
last night. "They are now so situated
that we can look after all of them"
Mr.. Demuth will leave in a few days
for Rossland, where he is superintend-
ent and manager of the White Bear
mine. Mrs. Demuth will follow. The
two elder children will remain in Spo-
kane.
In case any children are born to the
| Demuths the relationships will be en-
tangled still more.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-14
BAD MAN GETS TRIMMINGS"
A Montana Tough Attacks an Old
Mantle Is Running Yet,
and Fast
Special to The Herald.

DILLON, Mont. May 13.--While sit
ting in the /. X. l.. restaurant John
Fucker, an old sheep herder was APP
preached by James Sullivan who de-
manded the price of a meal from
Fucker. On being told by the latter
that there was nothing doing in the
meal ticket line just then, Sullivan
started to clean up the place with the
old man.
After striking him a couple Of times
the young tough started for the door.
produced young cannon from his
clothes and opened fire on his assail-
ant.
Al the first shot Sullivan started TO
make record, and as he hasn't been
seen since the general opinion IS that
he Is running yet.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-14
BABY RoBs BOY OF BILLION
Arrival of John D. Rockefeller Ill
Puts crimp in Prospects OF
Fowler Mccormick
speeIal TO The Herald.

NE WORK, May 13.-"I am very,
very glad that our new baby is a boy,
but a girl would have been as warmly
welcomed. To be sure, we all rooted
for boy" was the way John d. Rock
efeller, jr., father of the Millionaire
baby, John d. III, expressed himself
to newspaper man.
Most important of all the results OF
the arrival of this baby heir to the
Rockefeller riches is that 1t takes from
little Fowler Mccormick the place he
has held as the one male heir-presump-
tive of the STANDARD Oil man.
OF course, Fowlers mother, Mrs.
Harold Mccormick, did not let any dis
appointment she may have felt over the
tremendous change in her boys for
tunes interfere with her joy over the
arrival of her new nephew, and among
the heartiest congratulations sent to
the proud parents were those that
went from her home, Laurel-in-the-
Pines, at Lakewood. N. ].
However, little Fowler Mccormick
will not suffer for want OF this worlds
goods, because, while the great pre-
ponderance of old John DIS wealth will
undoubtedly go to the first born boy OF
his favorite son, there Is plenty to 20
around among all the flve grandchll-
dren he now has.