The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-26
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 WASHINGTON, Dec. 24-One of the severest blows ever dealt to or ganized labor was the judgement handed down by supreme court justice Wright in a decsion rendered in the case of the Buck Stove Co.,, against Gompers. Mitchell and Morrison, on m injunction granted the Stove Co.,, ', in their recent labor troubles. The convicted men a.e at the head of the American Federation df Labor and have a world wide reputation as labol leaders. They are sadmired ny thu
 nen they represent. are known to b. opposed to any violation of the laws, and their conviction has caused a deer feeling among tne laboring men ib general, who say that they will strug. gle to the end rather than see thel
 leaders wear convicts stripes.
 Gompers recieved one year, Mitchell
 line months and Morrison six months mprisonment. Attorneys suspacting conviction had papers in readiness. appealed the casa and the labor lead ars gave bond for their appearance at the next term oi court. Gompers in al interview later said that fine points O. law was involved in the case and thal ne hoped that the main position at the issue ''the free and unrestricted priv eage of speech by an American labor- ing man would not he deDied hin when such a speech was not libel. apC violated none ol the criminal codes such as melting riot, tresspassing or inilicting bodily harm on the person of any individual" would be settled once for all. It Aas been customary ii all lahor org inizatiuns during labo' troull $ of any kind, to have picket, .tationed along she places of employ nent, the duties of these picket being to tell men who were on thei, way to work why the lalor unions re- t1se to work fOi the wages offered, or he conditions they wanted hettered. and induce the:n if possible pot to work until the trouble was settled. The employers, instead of the trying TO suppress tn. individual is going after the heads 7,f the union believing in the old adage ''never cut q branch If tree if you expect to kill it, cut 1ff the roots.
 BROOKLYN, Dec. 2i At an early hour this morning the fire department vas called to the fashionable apart ment house district in Brooklyn where fire had originated from some un- known cause and was rapidly eating Is way into the building which seem-
 l to be ablaze from top to bottom. A gale was blowing and the fireman reaIz ng they could Lot save the hui idipg, directed their attenton to saving the ones adjoining, which proved a ia llure in the face of the gale then blowing. Department after de- pratnent was called out, still the fire reged on until it was feared for d time thaI the whole section was dooned. The 6remen worked like .lemords but it was houre before the ire was un Ter control and not even then until many blocks had been b lrned rendering a thousand peopl' homeless. nearly all of whom lost all save the clothes the wore.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 2l-Majol Richardson of th' Alaska road com- issiou has con pleted his report oI he work done np to t,e present time, also comment on the agr ricltulrnl pro- poets of tls dis'rlct with rec concentrations for certain conditoins existing.
 In his report Major Richisons say :: The read building in Alaska greatly reduces time in carrying mails to and rom interior points ther@by giving the hitherto ;solattd camps mail ser
 ice in the winter months when prior to the construction of the roads and
 rail it was often three months before mail could he recieved or delivered.
 Tine commission has constructed and improved to date, one hundred and sixty five miles of wagon road, three hndred and eghty miles of sled road, and two hundred ana forty one milel of trails which is good show
 ing considering the many difficulties to be overcome. Aside from his re- port covering the work of the com mission Major Richardson dwells on the agricultural possibilities of the district saying in part that nearly all vegetables grown in the middlt states will produce in abundance in almost all territories up to and in- cluding the Yukon district, that the flavor in many instances is superior and the general average in size is equal to or better than in any other locality, lettuce, turnips. radishes, carrots, potates and onions doing e.. pecially fine.
 Ii may also be noted that ! on, have an especially fine flavor thus ,loing away with the idea that the canteloupe is strictly a warm climate product.
 The difficulty of properly distribut- in funds has caused some complaint at