The Ketchikan miner., 1907-08-17

demning the movement will certainly he passed embarrassing the administra- tion.
 Seattle, Aug. 13.--The Guggen- helms are assem bling enough steel and other material to complete their Alaskan railroad as far inland as the Abercrombia rapids.
 Chicago, Aug. 13. After weeks and weeks of waiting in the hope that Istrouble would be averted, the order was sent out from the headquarters of the Commercial Teleraphers Union this morning calling out every union operator in the United States employ cd by the Western Union or Postal Telegraph companies, the Associated Press and all other companies except the Hearst Newspaper Syndicate, the latter signed the scale some time ago. The railroad telegraphers are not affected expect that they are ordered hy their union heads to refuse to handle any commercial business. Thus the thing so long threatened has happened and until it did no one realized just how it would affect our business life. Now the discovery is made that every business move de- pends more or less upon the ticking of the wire for its very life and every thing is feeling the effect. The stock market has been hammered to pieces and panic regins supreme. The gov ernment weather bureau is unable to get it's report of climatic conditions and disaster is threatened to shipping and the like. The newspaper news service is impotent to send it's news to its customers. and every where is tn ere inconvenience and monetary loss Last night Manager Stone, of the Associated Press offered to call a meeting of the board of directors of his concern next Tuesday if the key men would stay at their posts, but " as met with the reply that it was now too late, and that he should have attended to the matter sooner.
 At Seattle the operators Of both companies walked out last night and the company is trying to take care of local buisness with force of thirteen strike breakers, most of them incom- petents
 Chicago. Aug. 14.-There is no hope of immediate relief in the tele- graphers strike. Every hour brings in the news that more men have left their keys and taken their places shoulder to shoulder with their brothers. Last night q committee from the unions at New York offered the telegraph companies to arbitrate their differences, but the represen- tatiyes of the companies refused and more men were ordered out. The telegaphers on twelve of the larger railroads centering in this city have offered, after q canvass of the mem- bers, to call sympathetic strike to help out the commercial men, but no answor has as yet been given them. The Associated Press in it's efforts to get news matter through has put few strike breakers at work in this city. paying them double wages, and . littia news is being pushed through in this way. The government at Washington is worried over the strike as word cannot be gotten from de- partmental headquarters to the con- handlers of Notifications and war ships. but as yet no action has been taken to bring any pressure to bear on either party.
 Later.-A delegation of striking telegraphers at one o'clock today waited upon the intefnationtal head quarters of the Typographical Union with the request that that body in- struet its members to refuse to handle news matter forwarded by "scabn telegraphers. If this action be consu-