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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04

inspected by the mining experts
when they visited the mine bv au-
thority of the state. If the cata-
strophc was due to a visitation of
providence, or by no fault of the
managemet, the company ought
to have encouraged Il rigid inspec-
ton to disabuse the public that
they were not to blame. No COM
petent practical miner sent to in
vestigate the cause Of q mining
catastropc could be induced to
blame guiltless manager. but
there are those who could be i'll
duced to whitewash guilty one.
There is not a coal mine ia West
Virginia, or any other coal produc-
Ing state i'll the union, that gives
OIL fire damp so copiously that it
cannot be diluted and rendered
harmless by fresh air. Since the
general application of the fan as
ventilating power, enough and
to spare of fresh air is created to
ventilate a mine so thoroughly as
to make explosion a thing of the
past. But the air must be carried
forward to the working faces of
the mine and circulated through
all the rooms and entries, as well
as through all the wrought-out and
abandoned places, SO that no stand
ing gas can form. There is not a
mine in West that gathers coal
dust SO abundantly that it cannot
be cleaned up and hauled outside.
or, # left in the mine, can be water
ed daily, so that ignitics of the dust
IS impossible. But the stoppings
must be made and kept alright
and examined daily if perfection
in ventilation is sought to be at
tanned.
No mine should be permitted to
run single day after coal is reach
ed, except only with sufficient
force of men to open communica
ton with the escapement shaft.
There is no question that if a sec.
ond opening had been provided tc
the Stuart mine, as required by the
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04
THE FAYETTE MINE EXPL LOSIONS
Some Salient Facts in Connection with the Late Catasophes
at the Stuart and Whipple Mines-State Laws
Were Utterly Dsregarded

Samuel Dixon, president of the
Stuart Colliery Company, is one of
the most extensive mining opcr-
ators in West Virginia. He has
interests in all the mines of the
New Rivor Fuel Company, eleven
in number. One of these, the
Parral mine, is situated about Il
explosion in the parral mine Oc-
Cured on the Sth of March, 1906.
which killed twenty-five miners.
Neither of these mines had escape
meut shafts,
To avoid the cost of making two
openings an entry of the Parral
shaft was heading east and an en-
try in the stuart shaft was heading
west to open communication with
the workings of the two pits; they
were about thousand feet apart
when the Stuart explosion occur
red.
The Whipple shaft is situated
about two miles north of the Stuart
mine. Mr.. Dixon is general man
ager ofthis mine. also. The Stuart
colliery had not been repaired
when another explosion occurred
i'll the Whipple, killing fourteen
miners. Such an array Of mining
explosions in 50 short time under
one management is without Il
PARALLEL in the history Of coal min
ing in the United State or any
other country. AS is generally
the case, the blame was shifted on
the shoulders of the dead miners.
An unskilled miner had bored a
hole i'll the solid which blew out its
( tamings and infiamed a cloud of
dust, which the management had
carelessly allowed to accumulate,
and roasted to death the unfortu-
nate miners whose working places
/ happened to be III the line of the
ihflamed coal dust.
In this connection it may be
pertinent to inquire why the
Stuart mine was not put in con-
dition that it should be thoroughly
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04
Back From Indianapolis.

President Craigo, Secretary
Morris and Sub District President
Thomas Cairns are back from In.
dlanapolis where they appeared be-
fore the National Executive Board
meeting and thoroughly explained
the situation in this District. They
speak very highly of the courteous
treatment accorded them by both
President Mitchell and the Board
and are well pleased with the re-
suit of their trip. They were given
the assurance that nothing would
be left undone by the National
Organization to thoroughly or
glnize the State. President
Mitchell outlined his policy and a
number of National Organizers arc
III the State carrying out,his in
StructionS and are meeting with
unprecedented success and if they
are given the undivided and loyal
support of every member of the
organization in this field it will not
be long before the fondcst hopes of
the officials will be realized
President Mitchell will make his
contemplated trip to this section
just as soon as his health will per-
NIT and spend some time here.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04
LOCAL BUDGET
OF MINING NEWS
President Mitchell to Confer with District Off
Gals at Cincinnati on Tuesday---Other
Interesting Items.

National President John Mitchell
Will hold Il conference with the
officials of District No. II and the
executive committee of the Kama
wha Coal Association in Cincinnati
on Tuesday, July 8. The meeting
Is lor the purpose of taking up
several matters of minor impor-
tance which have been in dispute
Tor some time past. There will he
no diilicnlty experienced in adjust
ing the differences to the entire
satisfaction of all concerned and
the questions ut issue settled for
all time. District President james
Al. Crligo, District Secretary Benj.
II. Morris and Sub-District Presi-
dent Thomas will leave Monday
to attend the conference.
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ne also saw Simpkins there. but
had no talk with him.
Housh said that Simpkins was
taken out to the woodpile one
morning at about 9 O'Clock and
compelled TO stand without water
In the blistering July sun till 3
O'Clock III the afternoon The wit
ness heard the colored Sergeant or
der the privatcs to keep Simpkins
standing. and when the prisoner
trled to sit down, the soldiers
pointed their bayoncts at him.
Alter this punishment Simpkins
had to be taken to the hospital.
FINISHING this tale IIou"h told of
4 difficulty he had had with the
assassin when they were PLAYING a
game CT solo in Il saloon mt Wal
lace in the fall of 1908, several
weeks before Steuncnberr WAS as
SasSlnated-at which time Orchard
SAID he had just returned from
Alaska. Orchard also said that
III hadn't been for Steucnberg he
would have been a wealthy man
and would have been enjoying ease
and money, instead of wandering
around the world.''
This is another conversation that
Orchard has denied:
Inc defense reverted to the Grip
pie Creek labor war and brought
IN Two more witnesses to testify to
the alleged brutalities and lawiess
ness of the mine owners. deputies
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04

and soldiers. James a. Banker,
member of the Western Federation
of Miners Executive Board of
British Columbia, told that he had
gone to the Cripple Greek district
to open up relief store. He was
arrested and warned to leave town
by the next train, Colonel Verdeck-
berg giving him instructions to
"hike OUT
Another interesting witness was
James |. Wallace, an attorney of
Cripple Creek, who served with
the militia, first as n private and
then as lieutenant during the
strike of 1904. He related sew
eral instances tending to show the
misuse of power of the militia by
mine owners; gave the criminal
records of some of the gun fighters
imported by the mine owners: !:
told of the working of the inta-
nous card system; rccited circum-
stances connected with the lootinr
of union store and a newspaper
Office by the tools of the mine
owners and sworc he saw X. G.
Sterling, chief detective for the
mine owners, fire the first shot in
the Victor riot the day Of the In
dependent Statiod incident.
y number of other witness gave
testimony that skaters Orchards
prize story and leaves the prose.
cution without leg to stand on.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04

mining laws of the state, fully half
of the victims Of the explosion
would have been saved. More
men, as Il rule, are lost by breath
ing the poisoned atmosphere of the
afterdamp than are burned by the
inflamcd gas. The miners beyond
the line of the burning fredamD
escape, il they can find Il way to
the bottom of the pit, without en-
cOuntering the products of the cx-
plOSion. Even after they fall in
sensible they are often rescued and
recover consciousness and live.
The explosion at the Whippine
mine killed few if any of the men
who were not roasted to death.
Four-ifths of the underground
people found the way to the es-
capcment shaft, and the long and
eXhausting stairway was climbed
to safety.
Few mining catastrophes in the
United States ever aroused public
to a higher pitch than the Stuart
mine explosion. The shaft was
the deepest in the state, had no es-
capement shaft and was being
operated in flagrant violation OF
the mining laws of the state, which
require that two openings shall be
provided to all mines working
more than twenty men and Scpar.
ated by natural strata of not less
than one hundred feet.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04
Appeal to President.

The Central Labor Union of
Washington sent Il telegram to
President Roosevelt Tuesday re-
questing that he institute an in
vestigation to determine if the tele-
graph companies have entered into
a conspiracy in restraint of trade
in violation of the Sherman anti
trust law. At the request of the
American Federation of Labor
similar action will. it is said. be
taken by all the leading labor or
CARNATIONS of the United States.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04

payment of dues as they have
heretofore, decming it cheaper to
be rclnstatcd than to pay dues and
assessments on some occaSsiouS.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04

The miners who are still on the
outside of the organization in this
district will do well to get in at
once as President Mitchell is CON
templating raising the initiation
fee at an early date in this field.
The fee has been exceedingly low
and it is deemed advisable to raise
it so that the men will not allow
themselves to be dropped for non
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04
Valient Services Recosnized.

X Il: X
Valient Services Recosnized.
The host of friends of District
Board Member Luke +. Ianham
| Will be highly gratiiicd to learn
That he has been appointed Il
National Organizer by President
John Mitchell, and entered upon
his new duties on the first of the
month. Luke has for wears been
one of the most earnest and
conscientious workers in the or.
Sahlzation and has accomplished a
power of good. He has been
read and willing at all times to
sacrifice his own interests in the
interest of the mine workers of
tins district and his appointment
is a well deserved recognition of
his services and will result in un-
told good for the cause in this
section.
PRESIDENT Crnigo and Organizers
hrlllman were present at tho local
meeting ut NuckollS on Tuesday
evening and made interesting ad-
dresses to the members which were
highly appreciated and instructive.
ms local is growing and the men
are beginning to take more interest
than at any time in the past.
i: IL Il
Z. j. lIackctt, of Bancroft was
! III the city Tuesday on business.
Fat is one of the hardest workers
Tor the organization at that place
and reports Il general Improvement
all along the line aud that pros
poets are bright for the continued
success of the local.
i; 4; 4:
IL. B. Nickers, one of the Dis
trict Auditors, and an influential
member of the local union at Paint
Creek, was in the city Tuesday on
business connected with the organi-
zation. Every man at Paint Creek
IS IL member of the local and it is
the best possible condition.
| National Organizer Charles
krhllman, who was called home
some time since on account OF the
| illness of one of his children, has
returned and is now hard at work
and is doing much good for the
cause at the series of ofmcctings he is
conducting in the Kanawha field.
Il Il: !:
The local at Shrewsbury was re-
organized OH last Tuesday evening
! by Sub District President Cairns
and National Organizer l.. f. Ian
ham. Judging from the interest
displayed by the membership it
will not be long before it will be
one of the best locals i'll the Dis
trict.
i: i:
The local union at Hickory Camp
has every miner on the works en-
rolled as a member and is in the
best condition. The meeting on
last Monday evening was addressed
! by Messrs Cairns and LanlIam and
was largely attended and har-
mOnious.
X y X
Ben Davis, West Nirginia's
| member of the National Executive
Board, is back from a meeting of
that body. He ably represented his
constituents and made an eloquent
plea for National Assistance in
this field.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04

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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04
Big Meeting at Wacomah.

Secretary Morris and National
Organizer Krallman addressed a
joint meeting of the Wncomah and
Banner locals on last Monday cvc-
ming at Wacomah. The meeting
was Il grand success from every
standpoint and the men are taking
more interest in the organization
than ever before and are building
up their locals rapidly.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04

Ben Davis, West Nirginia's
member of the National Executive
Board, is back from meeting of
that body. He ably represented his
constituents and made an eloquent
plea for National Assistance in
this field.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04

+. j. llackett, of Bancroft, was
IN the city Tuesday on business.
Pat is one of the hardest workers
Tor The organization at that place
and reports Il general improvement
all along tho line aud that pros
poets are bright for the continued
success of the local.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-04

IL. IL. Vickers, one of the Dis
trlct Auditors, and an influential
member of the local union ut Paint
Creek, was in the city Tuesday on
business connected with the organi-
zatlon. Every man at Paint Creek
Is Il member of the local and it is
the best possible condition.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-09-07
DEEP WATERWAYS
United States Not Alone Consider
ing This Project

The United States is not the only
country that is striving to bring its
waterways up to a high standard OF
navigability. Far from it. Reports
reaching the state department. from
United States consuls in every part
of the world indicate that waterway
development is universally conceded
to be the highway to ali increased
and stimulated commerce. The Old
plan of ship canal across the mar
rowest part of Scotland has been re-
vived, and business interests of Glas-
COW and Edinburgh are strongly IN
favor of IT.
France has similar schemes under
way and in contemplation. mill'G
being expanded for a single project
that will connect Lyon and M ar
settles
Germany also has her big i'm
provement plans, and now Russia
with all her revolutions and anarchis-
tic H2risings, and with the great war
debt. has come forward with a gil
gantic Improvement project that calls
for the expenditure of $4,000, 900.
A preliminary survey IS now beng
made for the construction of canal
I sag miles in length, connecting the
Baltic and the Black Sea.
In the United States this form OF
internal development is in. its in
fancy Congress has not yet been
convinced that. there is a popular de-
mand for this work, and the money
wftiel, it Appropriated at the last ses-
sion hardly will suffice to do more
than inaugurate great natiorai
| scheme of river and harbor bitter
ments. rs- -
For this reason the National Riv-
ers and Harbors Congress- which has
| been striving to bring home to the
nation the real arid vital importance
| If this work, now Is making strenu
Gus efforts to extend its membership
and it's influence so that by the timc
| the sixtieth congress convenes there
will be no mistaking the popularity
| of the sentiment in favor Of ifrlHnedi-
ate and comprehensive waterway de-
| velapments.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-09-07
Her Portrait

Pairter, can you paint picture
OF girl | used to know
Eyes of heaven, hair of sunset,
Cheeks OF ripe. and ruddy glow.
Can You paint her standing waiting
On the rustic bridge for me,
Paint 1lef inst as evening grandeur
Floods the nook with ecstacy?
Painter, can you paint the love light
In those eyees of sparkling wine,
Can you place upon your canvas
Chances that were wholly mine7
Car you paint her, 1.-THE and girlisll
Yet a woman through and through
Standing there above the water
Bashed in sunsets golden hues
Painter. can you paint the likeness
From the tintvpe of my wife,
Can you paint it as | see it
Looking forward Ger my life?
Can you get the thought and spirit
OF the rustic bridge we knew,
And the babb1ing brooks that gurgled
Like a stream Of sapphire hue.
She was Old, her hair was silver,
And the photograph is faint
Can you catch the inspirations
And transfer them to the paint!
Can you paint an angel, painter,
As | prompt your master brush,
Can you paint woman sweeter
Than the song of woodland thrush?
Painter, can you paint picture
! Of girl fused TO know?
Eyes of heaven, hair of sunset,
Cheeks OF ripe and ruddy glow?
Car YOU paint the girl | married
With the sunset 'rcnnd her head?
Can you paint from this old tintype,
Likeness of nay dear one, dead?
Painter, paint it as my heart beats,
Paint it as she stood that night,
Paint it with the golden sunset
Blended with the evening light!
Paint her beautiful and childlike,
Paint her pure and sweet and fair,
Paint her just like she will greet me
When / meet her-over there.
d. NJ NJ.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-09-07
IS NOW BANK PRESIDENT
w. T. Rose at the Head of Edwards
Institution

At a meeting of the directors OF
the Bank of Edwards, Mr. w. Thos.
Rose, of Vicksburg. was elected to
the position of president, succeeding
A. c. Jones, of Jackson. Mr.. Rose
will, of course remain in Vieksburg
bit he is added to the hnancIefing
staff of this prosperous Edwards
banking institution. The Bank OF
Edwards was established in 1904 and
has a splendid future and there is no
doubt that under the presidency OF
such progressive and conservative
man as Mr.. Rose that il will con-
tinue to prosper. Mr.. Rose is cash
Ter and manager of the American
National Bank treasurer and mana
ger OF the Vicksburg Savings Bank
and president of the Vieksburg Bank
three sterling institutions of this city
-Vicksburg Post
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-09-07
LARGE SALARIES

The graduates of the Memphis
Commercial College 40 n. Seconu
St. Memphis, Tenn, draw the lar
gest salaries of any business college
graduates in the State The reason
is plain. This school gives the most
thorough, complete and extensive
courses of sterography and business
training to be found anywhere With
our advantages of the famous Byrne
systems Of bookkeeping and short
hand, We reduce the time require
for completing a course from two
to four months over whae IS -
puired in other schools. II you are
acquainted with the average BUSH
ness college graduate, you know they
go out and work in offices as helpers,
or where the work is light, at most
any price to get a start many work
ing for So and So per week. This is
not so with the graduates OF the
Memphis Commercial College. Our
thorough practical courses gives the
student the training and experience
that enables him ITO go into and hold
the better class of positions vacated
by experienced help, and thereby
draw a good salary from the very
start The advanced salary that our
students draw over the salaries re-
ceived by graduates of other schools
would make it cheap for the student
toattend our school and pay tire full
rate of tuition than to attend
another school with tuition free.
We mention the salaries of few
of our students who were but few
| months ago without our course OF
practical training and were not able
| 70 arr, S3C r710,1th 1-p.sr30
| lady who worked in her brothers
store at SO per week finished a
course with us in ten weeks time
and is now drawing SIS per month.
| Another lady who was not earning
! anything and could not pay her
tuition was placed in our school BY
some friends of her father, she is
| now drawing $1,000 per year. Arr
other young lady who was not earn
! ing a cent. finished her course and
/ is now drawing a regular salary of
| S1a5 per month. A young man who
was working on a farm as day
! laborer, spent three months in our
school and his first four months
| wages averaged him $I75 per
month. He is now earning from
$4,000 to $4,000 per year. Another
young man who was working at a
saw mill at SI.5o per day, took our
I-eornbined course of bookkeeping and
shorthand and is now manager of an
extensive business at a salary of
$4,000 per year We could go on and
enumerate handreds of similar cases
| from those who have enrolled with
rs in the past. No other school III
| America can show such salaries
| from students just from school, It
| IL our Superior practical trainingthat
enables our students to draw these
excellent salaries 1t is positive
| fact that we cannot supply the de-
fnand for cur gaduates of bookkeep-
| ing and shorthand
IS Write for ard read our 500 Rt,a-
fantxe on page twp of our Seats1og
No oalStfs school Will hack their asr
vertiaing with such q guarantee. If
ynu cart enroll with us now, write
lus Nhys DIR advice has helped
Ithous4n3s to accomplish their aim.
esf lasntisl i; lsttsE 4
I6on, Memphis Business College. 46
y. Second ST, Memphis, Team.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-09-07

were compelled 10 lie down on the
naked earth like many beasts. torment
eel by mosquitoes. One night they
were suddenly awakened. and had to
assist to a scene of terrible fear. a
snake had attached itself TO the leg
OF one of the women who was scream
ing like maniac.
what hours of agony was related
by one of the survivors of the
wretched expedition. The struggle
with the snakes rendered Us weak;
the first night alone we killed four.
Then the poor slaves suffered all
privations, hunger, maltTeatment,
malaria, yellow fever, the an
ger OF the boss who wanted to
abuse himself Of the women. The
woman that rebelled against the de-
sire of the n1alfactor saw die in her
arms her infamt boy, because the
boss refused the necessary n1edi-
cines
Are you not terrified?
"Tirelli who was informed of it all
allowed II to be done.
And as it was IN Longwood SO
it was in other localities
an these days the Bureau OF La
Dor of New York dissuades our
countrymen from accepting these Of
ferscontained in a circular wherein
is published the project of coloniz-
ing in the state OF Mississippi offer
ing lands paid on installment ple->'
situated in the vicinity Of Green
vile
DO you know has protested
against the distrust of the bureau o.
labor
''Tirelfi. the condemned of Mantua,
the accomplice of the executloners
OF Longwood and Marathon.
"Ah Cannaille. "-Vickshurg Her
aid
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-09-07
Read The Times for the news.
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| am now practically 20 years young,
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/ can now do all my work with east
and assist in my husbands store
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