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Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04
Industrial Notes.

According to a report issued by the
American Federation of Labor. the per-
centage of workmen unemployed in the
month of October is smaller than it has
ever been since records were kept. Of
1855 unions, with an aggregate mem
bership of 154, 11S, making returns, there
were nine-tenths of one per cent without
employment.
The Louisiana Supreme Court has de-
cided that labor union has no right to
control the acts of its members when
performing public duties. The case was
that of the Plumbers Union. which had
ordered it's members on the board to
vote for certain candidate for inspec-
tor. The men refused and were expelled
from the union, and the court now Or
ders them reinStated.
The Industrial Workers of the World
have about so members in Chicago. ac-
cording to j. J. Keppler, business agent
of the Machinists' Union. but he says
''they make enough noise for 5000
The organization was formed last July,
and attempts to unite all the workers
under one union. 1t operates in direct
opposition to the American Federation
of Labor, and officials of that organiza-
ton say that the new idea is imprac-
teal and will not succeed.
Beginning on Monday, Jan. 1, 10000
hands employed by the American Wool
en- Company of Boston had their wages
advanced 10 per cent. The increase be-
comes effective i'll the 80 plants OF the
corporation, which are located in several
States. and several wooden mills in the
East not owned by the company have
granted similar advance. 1t is esti-
mated that the advance will give the
American Wooden Company's hands an
aggregate of about 81 10000 more each
year than they have been receiving.
As its final word to the public in an
ficipatiO of the coming struggle with
the book and job printing houses. the In
ternationaI Typographical Ulion heads a
circular thus: I'VE propose to sell to
the employer eight hours out of twenty
four, and we will do as we please with
the remaining sixteen" A peculiar fea-
ture of the strike ut New York will he
the tying up of the National Civic Fed
Grafton. which is printed in one of the
houses pledged to oppose the eight-hour
day will, nine hours pay.
During the last twn years Argentina
South, America. has had more than her
share of labor troubles. Strike has Suc-
ceeded strike. aud to such Il pass has the
labor question arrived that Congress
sanctioned Il residential law by which
the government was authorized to expel
from the country all foreigners who were
considered dangerous individuals Over
200 persons have been sent out of the
country under this law. The average
workineman has gained in one WAY con
siderahiy from the strikes. as the eight
hour working day Is general throughout
the country and wages are much higher
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04

demuation of river and harhOr appro-
priatiOns does not hurt him in the eSi-
nation of his constituents. because
there is no navigation in his district.
Hepburn was born at WellSville,
Ohio. in 1883, and was taken TO Iowa,
then territory. i'll 1871. He was edu-
Gated in the public schools of the ter
ritory and in Il printing Office. Then
he studied law He was admitted to
practice in 1854. He served as cap
tain. major and lieutenant colonel in
the Second Iowa Cavalry during the
this is the tenth Congress of which he
has been member. For two or three
years he did not speak to Mr.. Cannon,
and it is perhaps true that there is still
no love lost between them. In spite
of this each respects the ability and
position of the other. There is not an
other such fighter in either house of
the Congress rs Colonel Pete. He has
q command OF irony and sarcasm and
can use it so bitterly and effectively
Joined with ridicule that many Il brave
floor fighter uuails before him. Mr.
Cannon deliberatcd when be became
speaker of the House. For months he
and Colonel Hepburn had not been
friends. He made UP his mind that it
was better to have such Il man with
him than against him. and so he con-
scented to a reconciliation. which was
was eagerly arranged by mutual
friends. Hepburn is chairman Of the
Committee on Interstate Commerce.
aud in that position will have charge
of the administration railroad rate reg
ulation legislation. He will mix up N
every other fight Of Importance. This
is inevitabIe-partly because he is nat
-urally fighter and partly because he
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04

and join Rodriguez at Monte Cristi.
When news reached Washington
that a revolution had broken out in
Santo Domingo, that President Nor
ales had fed his capital; that two
factions were fighting and that no
one had any idea that any sort of
government existed on the island,
there was a manifest disposition Of
the administration here to wash it's
hands of the whole matter. 1t is ad-
mitted that if Morales is driven out
and if the island is to be disturbed
by a long revolution, the schemes of
President Roosevelt to continue the
modus vivendi and collect the Gus
toms must fall.
This government apparently has
abandoned Morales to his fate. The
intention of the President seems to
be only to take such steps as will pro-
tect the lives of the American receiy
ers, clerks, collectors and others who
have been loaned to Morales and COM
missioned by him.
President Carlos f. Morales, of San
to Domingo, who fled from his capital
and is a fugitive from the wrath Of
the revolutionists, is product of one
of the many revolutions peculiar to
Latin America. He is not yet 40, was
born at Porto Plata, in the island, was
educated for a priest, and for eight
years followed that calling. He then
turned his attention to the politics of
his disturbed little country, served I'M
der Jiminez and Wos y Gil, and on
two occasions was eXiled for plotting
against the government. He had par
ticipated in six unsuccessful revOlu
lions, when, in October, 1908, he led
an attack on the then President WOs
Gil, and being successful, declared
himself dictator and later president.
He claims to be friendly to the United
States, but has always resented the
interference of this country i'll the afs
fairs of the islands.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04

After three days Of riot and slaugh-
ter in the streets Of Moscow the
spirit Of revolution is blazing out in
other parts of Russia. At Odessa,
Kieff and elsewhere the strike is on,
and call for an armed rebellion has
gone out
In Moscow the fighting continued
without interruption. The strikers
were driven from their intrenchments
by the Cossacks and dragons, only to
fall back on new barricades, scattering
into new thorOughfares and extending
the zone of battle. Five thousand
persons were killed and 1900 wound
ed in fights in Moscow between revolu-
tionists and Cossacks. Leaders of the
Russian revOlutionists assert armed
forces are being assembled to fight
the soldiers and that civil war between
organized bodies of troops will begin
soon.
Frightful execution was done with
the machine guns. They were trained
on the crowds, and innocent women
and children who were fleeing for their
lives FELL beneath the hail Of bullets.
Thousands are reported killed or
wounded. In one instance the machine
pieces stationed at the Monastery Of
Passion were trained on persons who
Cossacks. Hundreds are reported to
have fallen, and the hospitals are filled
with the dying and injured.
The strikers in Moscow appear to
have become disorganized, and their
attacks were often turned into unruly
routs. Thousands We're driven outside
the walls and the fighting caused ter
ror in the suburbs. Once a mob of
revolutionaries swirling around a
street corner surrounded small squad
of Cossacks. The soldiers used their
knouts and knives, but were dragged
from their horses and trampled under
foot. Twenty Cossacks were killed.
The revolutionary leaders are still
untamed, although on the whole the
skirmishes went against them. The
constitutionalists assert that the strik-
ers have lost the day, while the gov
eminent officials point to the fact that
although the strikers have sought to
capture the railroads, trains are still
running between st. Petersburg, Mos
COW and Eydtkuhnen, and the tram
ways and electric lights are still in
operation.
In Moscow the military seems to
I have triumphed. but out in the prov
inces the danger is said to be grave
and outbreaks are looked for at Odessa
and other points that will be even
more sanguinary than the bloody street
conflicts in Moscow.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04
WILL SEE MORE OF THE WORLD.
Miss Roosevelt Will Continue Her
Travels After Marriage.

Miss ROOsevc1t VIII Continue Her
Travels After Marriage.
1t is understood to be the intention of
President and Mrs. Roosevelt to invite
to the wedding of their daughter to Rem
resentatiye Longworth only a limited
number of family and personal friends.
probably a few hundred in all. The
party will include the members of the
cabinet and their wives and perhaps a
limited number from the Diplomatic
corps. Mr. and Mrs. Longworth will live
for few months in the house now oc-
cupied by the former, which stands only
two blocks from the White House. In
May or June Mr. and Mrs. homework
plan to take a trip to Europe, where il
is expected the daughter Of the Amer
can President will be presented at the
English court end where it is certain
many honors will he heaped upon her.
not only in london. but in Paris, where
Mr.. Longworth has family connections.
Mrs. LOngworth that is to be has in
herted her fathers fondncss for travel
and entertainment. With the contem-
plated European trip the Presidents
daughter will have been pretty nearly
around the world and received the hom-
age of every nation and degree Of man.
kind. from the savages of Zamboango b
the courtiers of buckingham Palace.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04
SACKED BY MILLIONS,
Tho Lobby Against Arizona State
hood Is Very Powerful.

hood Is Very Powerful.
Hobbies are thick in the corridors of
the big. white national state house these
days. There is the railroad lobby. we'll
and persistently maintained But the
most strenuous and dangerous. as well as
the most picturesque lobby of all. is the
mine owners lobby from Arizona, fight
ing statehood for that territory. 1t is
picturesque because of the bold methods
its employs. and because it has at least
two United States Senators among it's
hackers. 1t is dangerous because of the
possibility that grave scandals may re-
suit from its operations. 1t is a lobby
with hundreds Of millions of dollars back
Of it. The agents and manipulators of
its schemes are too smart to offer out
right brides. But they have mining stock
for sale-stock which is sure to earn
big proft-stock that will pay big to all
who get in on the ground floor. And
just now we are letting little Of it out
to our friends
1t seems rather strange that the rich
mine owners Of Arizona should be fight
ing statehood. either single or joint, but
the reason for it is not far to seek. They
own the territory now. They run it.
They are lords of the estate. Naturally
they do not want to run any risks by
change to statehood. These mining cor
porations have had things their own way
all along the line, but in no particular
so emphatically as in the assessed valua-
ton of their property upon which they
are called to pay taxes.
These powerful corporations do not
want statehood. They can operate more
independently and profitably under a ter
ritorial form of government, and they
stand ready to devote big share of their
millions to the work of preventing the
passage of bill giving Arizona either
single statehood or joint statehood with
New Mexico
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04
I-aZaaSSSSAN!INus e
Ha2eyg !1'
zHZNGSDY |

Labor Oppressed Years Ago

Labor Oppressed Years Ago.
| All the writer's on the early labor
movement agree that the working peo-
pie in the early history of the nation
had hard row to hoe. Here is what
one writer says:
'The length of working day in
| 1925 varied from twelve to fifteen
hours. The New England mills gener-
ally ran thirteen hours day the year
round. The regulations of the factories
were cruel and oppressive to il degree.
Operatives were taxed by the company
for the support of religion. Habitual
absence from church was punished
by the Lowell Manufacturing Com
pany with dismissal from employment
and in other respects the life of the
employees outside the factories was
regulated as well as their life within
them. Windows were nailed down and
the operatives deprived of fresh air.
A case of rebellion on the part of 1000
women on account of tyrannical and
oppressive treatment is recorded.
women and children were scOurged
by the use of a cowhide. and an in
stance is recorded of an 11-year-old
boy whose leg was broken by a billet
Of wood. In Mendon boy of IL
drowned himself in a pond to escape
factory labor. Wages in the mills
were small, adults earning between Go
cents and II cents a day.
John Mitchell in his Organized La
Dor says: From 1925 to 1929 the earn
ings of the American wOrkingmen were
higher than ever before in the Ameri-
can history. The unskilled wOrkmen,
such as sawyerS and hOdcarriers, re-
ceived about 70 cents day for twelve
hours work where they previously re-
ceived so cents from Sunup to sun
down. During the winter. however
wages We're much lower. Men who
could earn in summer from 621a cents
to so cents day were glad to receive
smaller sum in winter
According to J. B. McMaster, the
remuneration of women was. as it is
their opportunities for employment in
comparably less. Women might bind
shoes, sew rags. fold and stitch books
become spoilers or make coarse shirts
and duck pantaloons at s or 10 cents
apiece. The making of shirts was
sought after because these garments
could be made in the lodgings of the
SeamstreSS, who was commonly the
mother of a little family and often a
widow. Yet the most expert could not
finish more than nine shirts week,
for which she might receive y or 90
cents. Fifty cents a week seems ~
have been about the average earnings
at shirtmaking.
''It was about 1925, when the condi-
tons of the American workman had
already begun to improve, that consid-
cradle unrest appeared among the la
boring classes. and from this time to
the outbreak Of the civil war there was
gradual evolution toward higher
standard of life and labor
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04

has had so wide and broad legislative
experience. and has such backing of
GOOD Judgment and common sense that
he will be drafted whenever there is
TO he anything Of Importance doing.
Blacksmith Stafesman.
.sThe Blacksmith Statesman" would
not be al inappropriate title for
lanes A Tawney, of Minnesota. who
1s to be a conspicuous House leader.
He is chairman Of the Committee on
Authorizations. which is the position
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04
THE WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS.
How the President and His Family
Spent the Holiday.

The custom of distributing turkeys
among the clerical force of the White
House, which was inaugurated by the
Mckinleys, has been followed by the
Roosevelts. Eighty-seven fine, fat birds
were this year required to go around,
each one bearing card on which is in
scribed the words, "A Merry Christmas
from the PRESIDENT Though, as a rule,
they do not have a tree, the Roosevelts
inherit from their Dutch ancestors a
rveneration for the spirit and sentiment
of Christmas and the day is given up
entirely to festivities. The four younger
children hang up their stockings, as a
matter of course. On the morning Of
Christmas day after breakfast, Mr..
Roosevelt leads the way to the library
which he calls the study where the
gifts are laid out on tables. He and
his wife distribute them and general
romp usually follows. In the afternoon
the children go to two or three tree par
ties, one of which is at the house of
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, the Presi-
dents lifelong Ghum. while another is at
the residence ct Mr.. Roosevelt's elder
sister. Mrs. Cowles.
Every Christmas thousands Of gifts
from total strangers reach the White
House. They are not wanted and people
would do much better not to send them.
When Of considerable value they are re-
turned to the donors, otherwise they
are accepted politely. with note of
acknowledgement Not one out of hun
dred Of them is seen by the President
and in former adIninist rations they were
commonly consigned to the attic. where
at the fine of tho recent reconstruction
OF the mansion. al immense quantity OF
old Junk thus accumulated WAS found.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04
Sparks from the Wires.

Reclamatior projects proposed and IN
der way by the government provide for
the retaining Of 1903. 500 acres of arid
i. nd at 4 cost of SCI .U2S,5I1.
The wholesale grocery house of the
G. w. Adams Il Sons Company in
Louisville was destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000. insurance about $4,000.
DR.. Maurice Fishberg of New York.
a special immigration inspector, declares
that immigrants arc 'doctored up tenn
porarily in Europe. III order to enable
them to enter America.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04

pursuing Morales,
encountered h i m
with sixty men
near San Cristobal
and &c h a Il ged
shots. There are
rumors that Mo-
rales was wound
ed. Many believe
that Morales will
cross yer the
mountain N a - 6 pc
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04
RUSS CORE FLOWS
Terrific Battles Are Fought in
Moscow.
CIVIL WAR is FEARED
Revolutionists Moved Down By
Drunken CosSaCks.

Combat Between cred" Army and
Cars Forces RACES for Three
Ing and Leaders Assert Army
Will Soon March on Soldiers and
End Observation-Disclosures I'm
Other Parts of Empire.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04

an important part in the fighting. They
will divide honors with the older lead
ers, who, because of their long tenure
in high places, are sometimes disre-
spectfuIly called the ''dowageTs' Of
the House In this class are such
men as Grosvenor, Payne Bingham.
Dalzell. Hit and several Others. They
will be leading spirits IL the present
House. but not so much the whole
show as in several previous sessions.
.'COI. Pete" Hepburn.
Most prominent of the men whom
Speaker Cannon brings forward is w.
2. Hepburn, OF Iowa. usually called
"CoI Pete" He has had an interest
ing career. for he is not Il young man
nor even a new man in Congress. be-
ing new only in commanding iniiu-
ence On two subjects Hepburn is
the strongest anti in the House. He
is against civil service ana against
river and harbor appropriations. Per
haps his views OIL the former are
based on observation made during his
service as solicitor of the treasury, III
the Harrison administration. His CON
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04
HOUSE WILL FIGHT.
LOWER BRANCH TIRED OF SEN
ATE DOMINATION.
VIII fmbibe the Spirit of Speaker
Cannon, Tnwney and Hepburn,
Leaders Who Are Old in Member
ship but New in Influence.
WASHINGTON correspondence:

HIS Is 10 De q
fighting Congress,
according to those
who are watching
conditions closely
in w a S h / Il gton.
The strong men
Of both Senate and
House will have
their hands full.
In the House OF
II e pre- entatives
the new men of
the Cannon re-
gimc are coming
forward more CON
spicu0usly t b q II
,-l I'LL Ln-.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-04
REPUBLICS CHIEF ROUTED.
President Morales OF SantO Domingo
Put to Flight by Rebels.

President Morales has fed from
Santo Domingo's capital. The cabinet
sent troops after him. These forces,
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-08-25
PALMETTO LEASERS
FEELING HOPEFUL
The Old Palmetto Mill Has Been
Leased for Three Months by
Franks and DevIin

Johnnie Franks and Owen Devlin of
Palmetto, came in from the southern
camp last week, says the Goldfeld Re-
view. They will return next Saturday
and commence operations on a larger
scale on the Franks-D evlin lease on the
Golden Gate claim of the Death Valley
and Palmetto group.
Mr.. Franks, who is superintendent
ing the work on the lease, stated that
the shaft had reached a depth of 120
feet and that development work was
necessarily slow on account Of the pres
ent lack of working facilities. A wind
lass has been used in sinking the shaft
to the present depth. 1t is the inten-
ton of the ~leasers to install a whim at
once and, when this is done, the work
will be rushed along much more rapidly.
Recent developments in the lease
have encouraged the leasers very much
and they are confident that they will
soon have something worthy Of mention.
All the way down from the surface a
good average grade of milling ore has
been found, and the streak lying next
to the hanging wall, from which no
small amount of specimen ore has been
taken, has opened up until at the pres
ent depth of the shaft, it shows a width
of fully twelve inches and averages
$3.50 in gold. The streak continues to
widen with depth and it is believed that
it will prove the bonanza of the camp
Ten men are now employed at the mine
and when the 200-foot level is reached
and drifting and prosecuting COM
mencee, several more will be added to
the present force.
The old Palmetto mill has been leased
for period of three months by Messrs.
Franks and Devlin and by the first of
the coming month several changes hat
are being made will be completed. The
leasers propose to make a thorough test
of the ores and if the run proves salts
factory, both the milling and mining
capacity will be increased. There are
several tons of ore on the dumps and
hauling to the mill will commence the
latter part of the week.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-08-25
Free Analyses and Assays

Among the numerous mistaken ideas
that prevail regarding the functions of
the government, one of the most gen.
eral is that some department in Wash
ington is prepared to make analyses or
assays of anything in the shape of a
mineral which may be submitted by any
citizen of the country. Naturally the
geological survey is credited with this
function and as a result not a day
passes without the receipt of a dozen
or more requests for such work. These
requests are acknowledged with the
statement that the survey has neither
the legal authority nor the available
funds to make indiscriminate analyses
or assays for private parties. A small
appropriation is made for chemical
and physical researches relating to the
geology of the United States but this
is inadequate for the absolutely neces-
sary chemical work required by the
biologists in connection with these
Investigations. Even if the appropria-
ton were sufficient to provide ample
facilities for making private analyses,it
could not be used for this purpose
unless such analyses were directly con-
%tributory to the solution of some geolo-
gic problem. Fortunately a large pro-
portion of the specimens submitted can
readily be determined by means of sim
pie tests and careful visual examina-
ton. Such a determination is always
made wherever possible, and the person
who submits the mineral is given all
the information available regarding it.
In most cases this is quite as satisfac-
tory as the result of an elaborate and
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-08-25

proportion of the specimens submitted
are absolutely worthless; some have a
commercial value only when occurring
in large masses and convenient to
transportation, while a few afford clues
to new occurrences of rare and inter-
esting minerals which are of great
value in connection with the regular
work of the survey. 1t is not expected
or desired that the practice of sending
in minerals for determination should be
discontinued, but it is best that the
public should not rest under a misap-
%prehension as to what can be done with
them. Mining Reporter.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-08-25

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