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The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
Demands of the A. p. Operators.

Anew York.-Melville Il. Stone, gen.
ssal manager of the Associated Press,
replied to the requests of the tele-
graphers employed by the Associated
Press. These requests were:
Day work. six days. eight hours daily.
$50 per week and overtime and extra
at the rate of sixty cents per hour.
Night work, six nights, eight hours.
s35 per week and overtime and extra
at the rate of seventy cents per hour.
The vacations to remain as at pres.
ent
A proportionate increase for chiefs
and sub-chief operators.
Mr.. Stones reply follows:
New York, August IL, 1907.
To Operators:
l received this morning communi.
cation from a large number Of the op.
orators In the service of the Asso-
ciated Press asking for changed scale
of wages and hours and requesting a
reply by half past seven O'Clock this
evening.
The changes involved are SO radical
In their nature as to add over $780,
900 year. and probably more, to the
expenses of this organization. The
Associated Press is mutual In its char.
acter, makes no profits and has no
surplus fund out of which such a sum
could be paid. Any such increase must
of necessity be levied back upon the
newspapers as a part of their weekly
assessments. AS general manager, |
have no power to make such an In
crease either in salaries or assess
ments without authority from the
board of directors, and 1t is obviously
Impossible to call this board together
within the time named. The board
consists of fifteen members. scattered
throughout the entire country.
At the same time. acting under au-
thority heretofore granted me by the
board Of directors, shall be very glad
at any time to meet a committee OF
our own operators and confer with
them respecting hours of service and
compensation with a view to making
some recommendation to the next
meeting of the board of directors,
which shall meet any fair or just ex-
pectations of those in our operating
service.
Even were I free to act, think you
must agree with me that a question OF
this magnitude should not be pressed
to a conclusion within the limits of a
few hours, and without any oppor-
tunity for consultation between my
self and representatives of our open
ating force.
NJ. E. STONE,
General Manager.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
May Shut Down Associated PROSE-.

Chicago-Action taken by the teleg
raphers OF Chicago threatens a fur
ther Generalization of the telegraph
service OF the country Unless de-
mands made by press and brokers' op-
orators are speedily granted. walkouts
will result in those branches of the
service.
The Associated Press operators will
present new wage scale and a de-
mand for better working conditions to
the company officials in New York.
The association will be asked to pay the
same wages and give the same condi-
tions as are enjoyed by the operators
In the employ of the Hearst news
service. These conditions include the
closed shop.
Operators in brokers' offices and at
the stock yards will also present new
wage scales. Every employer who re-
fuses to grant the concessions asked
will have a strike on his hands. The
leased wire operators will also refuse
to handle any messages for outsiders.
Only those pertaining to the business
of their employers will be sent or re.
ceiyed. This will cut off the banks
and other commercial enterprises from
the service which they have been
using since the strike began.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
Preacher With a Pull.
General Manager.

Old Orchard Beach, Me.-Rev. DIR.
A. B. Simpson OF New York at the Old
orchard camp ground Sunday raised
s62.363 for the Christian Alliance OF
Foreign Missions. There were 453 in
dividnal pledges and gifts. the smallest
81, the largest $1,000; the prisons
pledged $4,000 and ten of the pledges
aggregated $4,000.
Solicitations of jewelry. which made
the old-time Simpson collection days
spectacular, but was abandoned some
years ago because OF public criticism.
was resumed today In mild form. A
diamond ring, gold necklace, two
plain gold rings. an old watch and
chain and two small boxes of other
1ewelry were contributed.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
(Signed) "L. w. QUICK.
General Strike Expeotsd.

Denver.-Indications that the tele-
graphic business of both the United
States and Canada will be paralyzed
were strengthened when the Western
Union operators in New York city,
$500 strong. walked out. Both the
Postal and Western Union operators
in Chicago are out, and as these are
the two most important points in the
country the wires are already silent
in the principal cities.
Communications received by Ma
tional Secretary Russell OF the tele-
graphers' union show that the differ
ent locals will vote overwhelmingly
to strike. A general strike order from
President Small is expected at any
moment.
Denver Operators Join In Walk-Out.
Escorted by their striking brothers
and sisters Of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, every operator but
one on the force of the Postal Tele-
graph Company, numbering twenty
five, walked out OF its Offices in the
Ernest and Cranmer building Monday
morning at ten O'Clock. The one en-
ploye aside from the chief operator
who refused to go on strike is Miss
Mary c. Harm, the only operator who
uOeS not DelOnB 10 the union.
The walk-out is the result of the CON
ference between Superintendent w. C.
Black of the Postal Telegraph and
Cable Company and a committee of
the operators, made up of Joseph
Homer, c. A. Adams and Christopher
Haines. The committee issued an ul-
timatum to the effect that all non
union wires were to be stopped by ten
o'clock and non-union employees were
to be discharged.
This the Postal company refused to
agree to. and at 8: 30 Mr.. Black was no
titled that the union operators in a
body would walk out at ten o'clock.
Prompt to the minute, both men and
women left the building.
They were met by the striking West
ern Union operators and escorted,
amid cheers. to the Club building,
where the two organizations held an
informal open meeting to discuss ways
and means.
Shortly after the meeting word was
received by B. P. Meyers that at ex-
actly ten O'Clock. Denver time, the
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
"30" and "73."

Denver.-"This is 80 from Union
telegraphers Of the Associated Press.
'G3.' 5:43 p. m"
This message was the last sent out
Monday by the Associated Press oper-
ators in Denver before they walked
out on strike. 1t was sent to all the
newspaper offices In Denver. and SINH
lar messages were sent to every news
paper receiving the Associated Press
service In the country.
In telegraph parlance go" means
"The Last or Goodnight" "73"
means Good luck and good wishes" /"
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
Boycott is Called.

San Francisco.-The National Order
of Railway Telegraphers has swung
the enormous strength of its member
ship and treasury to the support of the
striking commercial telegraphers. In
practically every railroad station in the
United States and Canada the follow
ing message from the national secre-
tary of the order was received:
st Louis. NO.. Aug. IL. 1907.
ITO All o. r. T. Men in the United
States and Canada:
DO not handle any Western Union
business. We are backing Commercial
Telegraphers' Union of America finan-
cially and are giving them our sup
port. This is critical point in the
history of both organizations. Spread
this to every railroad station you pos
sibly can.
(Signed) IL. w. QUICK,
National Secretary o. R. T."
The tremendous Importance of this
order can only be appreciated by those
familiar with the inside workings of
the telegraph. 1t means that fully 90
900 organized railroad operators will
refuse to handle any Western Union
business and that boycott from one
end of the country to another, from
Canada to Mexico, and from the At
lantic to the Pacific, Is on. Seventy
five per cent. of all business handled
by the Western Union either origin
ates at or is destined to Offices where
only railroad telegraphers are en-
ployed.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
Been Dead Over a Year.

Evanston. Wyo-Coroner F. r. Cur.
tbs has been notified of the discovery
OF the decomposed remains of a man
near Smoot, In the northern part OF
the county. The find was made by for
est rangers. who report portions Of the
flesh so dried that II Is possible the
man met death a year or more ago. Al
purse containing a silver dollar and
a few cents. and pair of boots are the
only things by which Identification OF
the unfortunate may be effected.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
Boulder Graduate Called East.

Boulder, Colo.-Garry Brown. a
Boulder man and graduate Of the
State University. has been appointed
manager OF the construction and
equipment department Of the Brooklyn
Edison Electric Light Company, one Of
the largest electric plants In the world.
He formerly held the position Of a.
aistant superintendent
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting items Gathered From all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft Of Our Readers.
PersonaI.


Judge H. B. Short was arrested at
Center. Tex. while holding court, on
a charge of murder, court was adjurn-
ed until he gave bond.
State Superintendent j. L. McBrien
of Nebraska has issued a proclama-
tion designating August 10 as house
cleaning day" for the schools of the
state.
E. II. Hartman in an interview at
Omaha predicts a coal famine this
winter.
Mrs. Handeshell who lives near
tracks heard the crash of falling
bridge near Ethel Mo-, and building
fire on the track saved a fast Santa
Fe train from going to destruction.
William Allen White, of Emporia,
Kan. was guest, with Attorney Cen
eral Bonaparte, of President Roose-
welt at Sycamore Hill recently.
Judge Thomas Ryan, of Kansas.
assistant secretary of the interior,
has written a letter to a friend in
which he states that his health is so
much improved that he expects tn re-
sume his duties at Washington in
September.
Territorial Secretary Atkinson, of
Hawaii, has resigned.
f. w. Medlar, of Spencer, Iowa,
has been elected president of the Ma
tional Photographer association.
The works of Horatio Alger, jr.,
the noted writer of books for boys,
have been barred from the public IL
brary at Worcester, Mass. The reason
fd hnu fttl
and are too sensational.
Justice C. b. Graves, of the Kan
sas supreme court, was recently over
come by heat at his home in Emporia.
He was reported in a serious condi-
tion.
John Sharp Williams has been for
mally declared the nominee for SEN
ator of the party by the Mississippi
democratic state committee. His Off
cial majority in the primary was 64S
over Gov. Vardaman.
Miss Katherine Eddy, of Chicago,
and Senator Albert ]. Beveridge, of
Indiana. were married recently in the
American embassy at Berlin. Only
the relatives and few personal
friends witnessed the ceremony which
was very simple.
Miss Bessie Emerson, of Odessa,
Mo, was recently accidentally thrown
from a street car in Los Angeles, Cal.
and killed.
William Mulkey, the oldest resident
of Kansas City, recently died of old
age at his home there. He went there
with his mother from North Carolina
in 1928 when four years of age.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15

stroyed Genuine Must Bear
the a bssi eounu, means =, tosc-SimiIe TO Signature
attacks on the encaml Il
the close OF the council ahS><10X
GUS attack was made by the -.rre
from three different directions. ~Os
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15

II
A., Henry r.. Frederick W., Roland
and Mrs. Amelia Cole.
News reached Glenwood Springs Of
a homicide committed near the Cen
trail Colorado Company's Power plant
at Shoshone. A man named James has
been living for some time In tent,
near the company's plant, with his
wife and son. The woman has been
driving the stage between Shoshone
and Glenwood. James is said to have
been Of a quarrelsome disposition and
report says that he attempted to shoot
the occupants of the tent. His son, a
boy of about eighteen years, took down
his rifle and shot his father, killing
him almost instantly. The boy has
been placed under arrest by a deputy
sheriff
A sensation was sprung In the tu-
venile court at Colorado Springs.
when Judge Kerr, in sentencing l5-
year-old Alice Rickard, daughter of
Mrs. Mary Rickard, to the Girls In
dustrial school at Morrison, for incor-
rigibility, was informed that the de-
fendant was married three months
ago. This circumstance In nowlse af-
fected the decision. however, and the
girl will be taken to Morrison. Alice
was secretly married to Tom Seward,
living with her mother after the we'd
ding. The husband, who is said
to be only 10 years old, left town.
The girl attracted the attention of
the Juvenile officer by her alleged con-
nection with the theft of diamond
stickpin. and although her innocence
was proven, the trial brought out other
features resulting in the sentence.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15

There were thirty Postal telegraph
operators In Denver earning salaries
approximating $S2.50 month and
working six days week at nine hours,
with pro rata pay for all overtime.
The Western Union men to the num-
ber OF seventy-five are already out, but
superintendent s. E. Leonard says he
has about half the regular number of
men at work and that he has nego-
uated with number of operators
from out of town who will arrive dur
ing the day. Mr.. Leonard denies that
messages are being mailed or ex-
pressed, but says that dispatches are
being accepted subject to delay.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15

New York Western Union. the Los
angeles Postal and the Salt Lake
POSTAL operators went out, making
practically tie-up of the Atlantic and
Pacific coast.
The Denver operators eager to quit
tneir posts did not wait for news OF
the Eastern and Western men who had
Planned to go out with them. As each
OF the employees Nas received at head
quarters In the Club building the West
ern Union men cheered him to the
echo.
Al the Postal Offices In the e. & c.
building. the door to the operating
room on the second floor has been
locked and an armed guard placed at
the door to see that no one tries to
enter. Superintendent Blacks office
was also closed to the publi. When
asked who was inside the operating
room. the guard said: "Oh. just a
couple Of young girls"
AT strike headquarters a message
was received from Chicago announc-
Ing that Bartlett. Frazier & Company
Oh Chicago. one of the largest grain
and commission concerns in the coun-
try. with branch Offices In the leading
cities, had voluntarily signed up a new
scale with its men. raising their wages
from $50 to $3s per week.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
Miscellaneous.

ermentS suit 10 QlSSOlVe the mono
poly.
Federal Judge Landis, of Chicago,
has refused an offer of $4,000 year
to become chief counsel for the Peo.
pies Security company of New York.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has ordered a reduction of ten
cents a hundred pounds in rates on
wheat from Nebraska points to the
Pacific coast.
The telegraph operators employed
by the Western Union in Chicago
have gone out in sympathy with the
strikers in Los Angeles.
Judge u. M. Valentine, who held
the longest term as a justice of the
supreme court of Kansas, is dead at
his home in Topeka, aged n years.
The National Petroleum association,
with headquarters at Cleveland, O.,
has inaugurated a movement to have
the Interstate Commerce commission
reduce rates on oil on all the rail-
roads of the country on an average of
20 cents hundred.
A general strike of the building
trades has been inaugurated in Wash
ington, d. G.
A detachment of Dutch troops num-
bering As men has been massacred by
rebels on the island of Celebes.
Solomon Frank, business manager
of the st. Joseph Daily Volksblatt,
is dead at his home in that city.
creasing prices to American consum-
ers while lowering them to the export
trade.
Fred Magill and his wife, charged
with the murder of Magill's first wife
at Clinton, ILL.,, have been released on
bonds of $4,000 each.
The United States, Great Britain,
France and Germany have definitely
decided on a scheme for the establish
fent of a permanent court of arbitra-
court of justice.
Heavy loss of life is reported from
central Japan because of floods.
A commission to investigate a plan
for pensioning persons over IS years
of age has been appointed in Massa-
chusetts.
BY the capsizing of boat on Bear
Lake. near Chillicothe. Mo-, Miss Luz
cretia Evans and Emery McDougal
were drowned.
1t is reported that Great Britain
proposes to build a battleship so per
cent greater than the Dreadnaught
the tonnage of which will be 10000.
At a sale of Poland China hogs held
near Eldon, Mo-, T. M. Chalmers of
Oswego, Kan, paid $5.125 for one
hog.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-30
t4y Belle NDidleS

Never mindl He's company and
it'll please your pa; besides, here's
the summer nearly over and you
haven't had the worth of your best
dresses"
Eloise sighed as she listlessly at
tired herself In a dainty summer
frock. Two years at boarding school
and a two months visit the preced-
ing winter with school friend who
resided in Buffalo had entirely con-
vinced her that the society of Ashley
Hill was not to be desired She re-
called the dances, theatres and fire.
side condolences she had enjoyed last
winter with Leonard Haverly, while
visiting her friend. He had been en-
tirely devoted to her until she was
called suddenly home by the Illness
of her mother.
She remembered the look In his
handsome eyes as he bade her fare
we'll at the train and the tenderness
in his voice when he eagerly asked
permission to write to her and begged
her to let him know of her safe
arrival and her mothers condition
For the first two weeks after her re-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-30

ceiving a reply. l wouldn't write
again, because l put 1t in a return
envelope, and as it never came back
to me, was confident you had re-
ceived it,
They had now reached the busi-
ness portion of the little village. In
front of the drug store stood a stout,
ruddy-cheeked man who stonped the
young couple. Eloise greeted and in
troduced him as DR.. Wardell. IT was
Just coming to call upon you, Eloise.
I have got confession to make. MY
wife got out my overcoat to-day to
see II the moths were not inhabiting
1t. and in a pocket she found this
letter addressed to you. / remem-
Der now when your mother was sick
last winter, your father telephoned
me one day to stop at the postoffice
and get his mail on my way to the
house. l got several letters from
your box and this must have slipped
down in the lining" He handed
her the long-delayed letter.
II am so glad" murmured Hav-
erly, looking tenderly into the soft
eyes of the smiling girl, when they
had walked on few steps. that you
said you believed me before it was
proven to you"
And the next letter she received
from Leonard Haverly came duly to
hand-and heart.--American Agri-
culturist.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-30

auartermaster general. papa?" in
lGired his daughter Eloise, a pretty,
Iair-haired girl of nineteen.
That's good idea, Eloise," he
said. "I'll go down to the ofice now
and jerk them up down there"
In the course of two hours he re-
turned flushed and wearied, but ju-
oilant. Il called up the capitol" he
said, "and got the assistant quar-
ermaster-general. l interested him,
train and come right down here.
He'll stay with US, OF course. till we
go into camp, so, ma, you want to
prepare for him."
whats his name?" asked Yrs.
Gambler. 81 couldn't catch It over
the phone. He's colonel. though. |
didn't get his regiment, either"
Mrs. Gambler went to assist her
help" in the preparation of supper.
First. however. she bade Eloise go
and don one of her pretty white
gowns.
"Oh, mother, what's the user
Eloise had protested. He's some
old soldier with host of war stories
who won't know calico from
dimity."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-30

Elihu Gambler, commander Of the
8, A. r. post in his town, was very
busy man. The surviving veterans
bf his regiment were to have their
annual reunion on the 23d and ar
rangements were all completed for
lays of camp life. He was getting
anxious, however. about the tents
which were to be loaned his associa-
Hon by the State military depart
ment. 1t was now the 21st, the date
set for their arrival, and not even
the State armorer, who was to super
Intend the pitching of the tents,
had put In an appearance.
Capt. Gambler telegraphed the
uuartermaster general and received
a dispatch to the effect that the tents
had been sent by freight several days
before. He then sought the freight
agent, who owned to a bill of tent
age, but who insisted the goods had
been sidetracked somewhere en- route.
Frantic with apprehension, Capt
Elihu Gambler took his woes home to
pour into feminine ears. They were
always at least sympathetic.
why don't you telephone the
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-30
HerrIngs as a Sea Power.

To-day the herring is hardly re-
.garded as a luxury. Indeed, It is
chiefly eaten by those who can afford
nothing else, and yet three billion of
these fish are needed TO supply the
annual demand. How this inexhaust-
ible, limitless yield of the ocean has
swayed the destinies of nations is
strikingly set forth in an article by
Harold Boice, in Ocean.
Despite the unremitting harvest by
predatory man and gull and canni-
balistic cod and shark, the uncon-
quered armies of herring still con-
tinue to populate the Atlantic with
multiplying hosts.
The Atlantic has been aptly called
the herring pond" Indelibly asso-
ciated In the past with the economic
and political history OF Occidental
mankind. the herring seems destined
to survive as one of the greatest fac
tors In the welfare of Western ma
tioHs. To-day what the wheat crop
is to America the herring catch is to
Northern Europe.
Few persons. even among the
masses that consume fish, realize its
economic Importance. More than
three billion herrings are captured
annually. according to the latest es-
innate.
The weight Of that annual catch is
over 10000 tons.
1t would require $4,000 freight
cars, each with capacity of thirty
tons, to haul the herring harvest in
land from the Atlantic.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-30
EngIand's Currency.

Clergyman" writing to the Scots
man as a victim, warns the public to
beware OF the cardboard threepenny
pieces, sixpences, shillings, even SOW.
ereigns, that are being plentifully
distributed to children by venders of
sweetmeats, etc. Twice have been
grieved to find this paper money In
the church plate. and to-day, among
a handful of change given to me by
shopkeeper, I discovered an appar-
emily new but entirely worthless shiI-
ling. No one can quarrel with the
ingenuity displayed in the manufac-
ture of these coins. They are abso-
lutely perfect--to look at. 1t is only
when the victim begins to count his
money on his return home that he
discovers 'weighty' reasons for re-
jecting them as legal tender. In my
opinion, their issue should be made
illegal. London Globe.