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The wageworker., 1909-10-09


that afford
butter allowance only and
third that the estimated
the basis of pounds day for six five and
twofth day And it will be further OBJ
abundance estimated $18 suit of
Clothes and for everyday Clothes hats underwear
have left the magnificent Of $3.50 for each Allowing
But let study the paid by the corporations
the themselves the
Pacific $35
day Magnificent sum- All the other railroads the
class Of labor $3.50 day. while the Traction Co. is
of information
able gth with brckmasos 81 and
from So $3 day. and then the the loss Of all
work the outdoor nothing the who
to work hours lose all the odd
looking while
aonshed that should have audaciy
speak the good times of but the pecuao banker
or loan agent, grafter.''
The wageworker., 1909-10-09

Labor Union Lincoln appointed
inquire the of living this being part of
by that body The work OF
conducting inquiry Rev. Mr. Znor pastor of the
fraterna delegate the central
Rev Mr. Zenor devoted consd
visiting and talking with craftsmen and
parts the the following
the result of his Investigations. He
eff the daily those who depend
you will read hear words the effect that
prices everything
and good for everybody.
'The remember few when told
that the people
inclined believe of it-because there
work. did find work and
they could find it. We then told that
hard due overproducion
sufficient with which the business of the
country political necency the of the labor
classes high living domestic incompetency and fact
almost would chance knew what the
had remedy the
desired results, and that speedily.
N year said, not
million of idle and they the road and nds
charity have made million Who does recall
General Coxey General Kelley the expression
keep off but although
standing the engaged in discussion of the hard
times the hue and of politics. the full dinner pail
Washington
freed the slave and Grover Cleveland the abog
''Those indeed the man able @
find work accounted himself fortmate but the
they? myself then working of one-haf
of what receiving But that one-haf quite eff
which purchase the
s True have advanced
they pace
ing, with and taxes and other items?
cat the time used short introduction this paper
living the commonwealth of Nebraska and few Of
living prices will certainly copy prices
from dyboo kept at that time paid for the best -four
The wageworker., 1909-10-09
A Nebraskan's Tribute
To Grand Young Nebraska

growing these days point to the fact
that my seven children have all elect
ed to be born in Nebraska. But so
much did l think of Grand Old Mis-
souri, in the days gone by that l Sc
lected it as the state in which my
father and mother should be born,
and in order to make assurance dou-
bly, sure I selected it as the state in
which my fathers parents should be
born. The Kingdom of Galloway
doubtless fails to realize fully the
honor l have conferred upon it by
selecting it as the birthplace of three
generations bearing the name of
Maupin.
The ties that bind the middle west
together grow stronger with the pass
ing years. Not always has it been
the sundown side of the Missouri river
and welcome the sons and daughters
of Missouri to our hearts and our
homes. Within the memory of men
sitting around this banquet board Ne
braskans stood upon the river bank
and welcomed with sawed-off shot
guns and Sharp's rifles to shallow
graves in the fertile soil of Nebraska
the invading hosts of Missourians who
sought so strenuously to effect with
physical means mental political cures.
Only a generation ago Nebraska and
Kansas mothers frightened their chill
dren into obedience by stories of in
vading Missourians, even as the moth
ers of earlier centuries frightened
and the bogy man. God be praised
that day is past and we have lived
to see the full glory of the day when
men of the middle west, instead OF
battling in death grip, are engaged
in friendly contest for supremacy in
the great work of building for the
welfare of our common heritage.
Standing upon the floor of the Ne
braska senate few years ago a state
senator gave utterance to a mighty
truth, although couched in the Ian
guage of that prince of lingual con
tortionists, Sir Boyle Roche. Said he
| Every man should be proud of the
land of his nativity whether he was
born there or not" And so l love
Nebraska, the state of my adoption
the choice of my maturer years. We
cannot boast of great coal mines an6
steel mills like Pennsylvania; neither
The wageworker., 1909-10-09

On Saturday, October 2, Deputy
Labor Commissioner Maupin submit
ted to Governor Shallenberger his re-
port of an investigation into the street
car strike in Omaha. Mr.. Maupin
spent three days in Omaha trying to
bring about an amicable adjustment
of the struggle in that city. His re-
port of his efforts and of the condi-
tions as he found them is submitted
by Mr.. Maupin to The Wageworker
readers without comment at this
time. It is as follows:
To His Excellency, the Governor,
State of Nebraska, Lincoln.-Hon
Ashton c. Shallenberger: In the mat
ter of the present strike of the motor
men and conductors of Omaha against
the Omaha & Council Bluffs Street
Railway Co., l have the honor to sub
nit the following report:
The present difficulty had it's incep-
ton some four or five years ago when
the motormen and conductors in the
employ of the above named company
perfected an organization to promote
their interests. After careful investi-
cation, it appears that there is also in
Omaha an organization of business
men whose purpose is to enforce the
"open shop" policy and to refuse to
recognize unions of employees. Since
the organization of the street railway
employees there has been considerable
friction, the men asking that their
grievances be presented to the com
pany through a committee selected
from among their number, and this
request being refused when presented
The influence of the organization OF
business men is very powerful in the
business world. The employees of the
street railway company declare that
the members of their union have been
Disseminated against. AS evidence O1
this they claim that of approximately
$50 motormen and conductors EN-
ployed last year, not less than 45(
were discharged or forced to resign
because of this alleged discrimination
About six weeks ago the employees
appointed a committee to wait upoI
President Wattles of the comapny
with statement of what they wanted
This demand I attach to this repor
and mark it Exhibit A."
| President Wattles refused to agree
to any of these requests. A numbe
of conferences were held between th'
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walter In New York, little dreams of
the vastness of our Nebraska domain.
The overland traveller who leaves the
Union Pacific depot at Omaha as the
sun, is just peeping above the hills on
the Iowa side of the Missouri river,
eats his lunch in Grand Island, Ne
braska, his dinner at North Platte,
Nebraska, and is in bed and sound
asleep as his train arrives at Sidney,
Nebraska, and then he has good
two hours ride ahead of him before
his limited train rushes across the line
oming. A big state? God bless your
souls, good friends, we have one
county in Nebraska from which might
be carved a Delaware, a Rhode Island
and then have a few good farms to
spare. In that single county all the
peoples of the world, civilized and un-
civilized, might be placed, and each
one given enough room in which to
swing in comfortable rocking chair.
"Our dairy products in a single year
are worth more than the total output
of the gold and silver mines of the
United States, including Alaska The
boasted roast beef of Old England is
fed and fattened upon the succulent
grains and grasses that grow upon
Nebraska's fertile SOIL Our corn crop
is worth more than the total tobacco
crop of the nation. Our yearly live
stock production is worth more than
the yearly output of the nations cop
per mines. Our annual hay crop would
build a single track railroad from Ne
braska's capital city to Manhattan Isl
and. Our annual potato crop would
pay the interest on the national debt
for thirty days. Our annual produc-
ton of poultry is more than 10 per
cent of the nations receipts from in
ternal revenue taxes. We raise more
corn and wheat per capita than any
other state in the union. We have
more and better school houses per
thousand of population than any other
state in the union We have the
fourth largest state university, and we
are so proud of what we have made
it that we refused to make it the
appendage of millionaire who sought
to advertise his philanthropy by max
ing it the recipient of his bounty
Come with me to modest little cot
| tage in Lincoln and I will give you
ocular proof of our proud claim that
in Nebraska that we have the sweet
est women, the noblest wives and the
handsomest and sweetest children ir
| all the wide, wide world.
Continued ON Page A.
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do we have to bear the Odium of
purse-proud millionaires whose naugh-
tiness and dementia Americana make
copy for the Associated Press. We
cannot boats of giant cotton factories
like Massachusetts, but in the even
ings we can sit around while the grow
ing corn is singing it's song of pros
perity in a rustling chorus and count
the interest money that Massachu-
chusetts is pouring into the perman-
ent school fund of our state for the
benefit of the children of Nebraska,
children round million of borrowed
money. We cannot boast of Carnegies
and MOrgans and Rockefellers, with
their feudal estates and giant trusts,
but in their places we point with pride
to 325,00O happy school children who
daily wend their way to II 900 school
houses within our borders, each child
with a warm breakfast inside and COM
Portable clothing outside. We cannot
boast of any Four Hundred; neither
are we compelled to watch a bread
line made up of hopeless and jobless
men forced to eat the bitter bread
of charity We cannot boast of giant
trusts feeding and fattening upon the
necessities of the people, but we can
and do boast of state without a
dollar of bonded debt, with $9,OO0,OO0
in cash in it's permanent scholo fund
and $27, 100000 worth of school lands
yearly furnishing the fuel for the edu-
cational machine that has made Ne
braska the least illiterate state in the
Union. We bast no mines of precious
metals, but we boast of hens whose
industry yearly provides us with an
egg crop that sells for more in the
open market than the total output
of Colorado's mines of gold and silver.
Nebraskans do not dig with pick and
shovel the yellow gold from Nebras-
, ka soil, but every year Nebraska dairy
cows mint Nebraska grains and grasses
into $35 ,OO0,O 900 worth of golden butter.
Loaded into standard freight cars one
years crop of Nebraska corn would
make a freight train long enough to
reach from Omaha to San Francisco
One years crop of Nebraska wheat
would fill freight cars enough to make
train reaching from Sidney, Ne
braska 412 miles west of the Mis-
souri, river, to Chicago, Illinois, SOC
miles east of the Missouri river. One
lyear's output of the Industrious Ne
braska hen would lay solid glrdie
of eggs once and half times around
the globe. The New Englander who
orders his dinner in Rhode Island
eats it in Connecticut and tips the
The wageworker., 1909-10-09

cents 100 day paid $180 for sack OF 48
pounds practically four times much the hard times
then paid 10 get Tor 81
cents pound % cents for meat better
than for from 10 per pound and the
hold good through the entire line The
also of vegetables of all kinds of clothing Of furniture
household goods In fact everything coal and wood
But let this generazng, down real specific
statements of the of living today the city Of Lincoln Let
take the family Of By actual investigation
find of living the follows
the following table reduced
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junction City Union: Lee Gramley,
manager of the Clay Center team, pick
ed up a. new southpaw pitcher while
umpiring the game between the Man
haitian Aggies and the Oklahoma Nor
NAL team Wednesday. The pitcher is
La youngster named Stokesbury. He
pitched for the Sooners at Manhattan
and seemed to look good to both West
and Gramley. West wanted to sign
him but Gramley beat him to it. Stokes
bury pitched for an independent team
at Pratt last year and is said to be a
promising young pitcher.
The following players are under con-
tract and now trying for places on the
Twin City team: Clarence Shaw, Hugh
McCallum, Fred Gorrell (out) VIM.
Punches. Carbouda, Melville William
son, Altoona Homer Brandley, second
base, Wilson and Sublct. first base, Ba-
con and Martin, short stop, Harry Mar
tin. levitt. McGrath. King, Lackey,
Harerd, Morehouse, pitcher.
Ssnna Journal: Some of the towns are
wanting to name their ball teams For
some of the towns this will be an easy
matter, as the naming will come natur-
al. For characterization City. will
without a doubt be called the Soldiers
or some name referring to the army;
the Manhattan team will probably take
the name of Professors; the Minneapo-
lis team will probably be doped the
Minnies again this season and last year
the Ellsworth team was called the
Blues. Perhaps this name will follow
them again this season. The above are
names that would easily apply to the
towns. If a name is wanted, it is a
good idea to wait until some fan gets
excited at, at game some day and
many good names originated in this
way.
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HAD ONE BAD INNING.
SIapniclla's Wildness Lost Saturdays
Game to Lincoln.

Lincoln, took Saturdays game from
the locals through the wildness of
Slapnicka in the second inning. Three
hits followed by two walks with the
bases full and then two more singles
netted the visitors six runs. Thomson
succeeded Slapnicka, and only one run
and two hits was made off him in
seven innings.
Lincoln scored run in the first on
an error by Kahl and a double by
Thomas. In the second. after two
men were retired Jones. Waldron and
Fox singled and Jude and Thomas
walked after which Davidson and
Gagnier singled. The only other Lin
coin run came as a result of a single
by Thomas, sacrifice hit by
Davidson an overthrow by Thomson
and a wild heave from centerfield.
Johnny Jones worked for Lincoln
and was easy for the locals. The To-
peka boys put up stiff fight for the
game. but were unable to pile up
sufficient runs. In the second a walk
to Cooley, a single by Geier and a walk
to Fenlon, followed by Kern's double,
scored three runs. Another run came
in the fourth after Thomson had
doubled and Waldron had muffed
Longs long one. Hits by Thomson,
Wooley and Cooley added another in
the sixth. The final runs in the
eighth came as a result of a single by
wooley, a single by Kunkel and a
fielder's choice.
The score:
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NATIONAL LEAGUE GAMES.
Pittsburg 6-5. Chicago 20.

Chicago, May 3.-Pittsburg won both
games from Chicago yesterday. Chi
cago players were unable to hit Cam
nitz in the first game, while the WISH
tors found Overall at the right time.
Reulbach pitched one inning of the
second game, gave two passes and hit
a batsman. Two errors. two hits and
six stolen bases followed netting five
runs. Wagner in this inning stole sec
ond, third and home. Liefield held Chi
cago helpless throughout the game.
Score:
Score by innings: RHE
Chicago .-.-.-......... 2 o 0 o o o.
Plttsburg .............2 l 0 0 i Is 10 ]
Batteries-Overall and Moran; Cam
ritz and Gibson.
Two base lits-Schreckard, Gibson
Hoffman. Base on balls-On Overall, 2;
off Camnitz, 2. Struck out-By Overall
s; by Camnitz, 8. Umpires-O'Day and
Emslie.
Second game-Score by innings: RHE.
Chicago .....-.........0 0 o 0 O 90
Pittsburg ..-...-....-.-5 o 0 0 o 0-6
Batteries-Reulbach. Hagerman and
Moran; Liefield and Gibson.
Two base hits-Wilson, Schultze
Kane. Base on balls-Of Reulbach, 2:
Hagerman, 1. Struck out-By Reulbach
i; by Hagernan. /; by Liefield, 8. UNI
rires-O'Day and Emslie.
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ton Of Fromme during the two games.
Score:
Score by innings: R-HE
SStnclnnati .---..--...0 900 1900o-
81. Louls--..-.........0 1 0 o o 3 0 Is 3
Batteries-Rowan. Campbell and Nc
Lean; Beebe and Phelps
Two base hits-Autrey, Shaw. Base
on oaiis-Oh Beebe. L: of Campbell. 1;
on Rowan, z. Struck out-By Beebe. 2;
by Rowan, 2. Umpires-Klem and
Kane.
Second game-Score by innings: RI. E.
StASrnAali ---....--.-.....z . W SO IA .
ST. Louis o 900 o. IL Z
Called account of darkness in 7th.
Notwithstanding, Casper. Campbell
and Mclean; More. Eallee, Higginboth-
am and Phelps.
Two base hits-Ellis. Osteen, Lobert,
Delehanty. Three base hits-Mitchell,
2. Base on balls-Off Sallee, /; off
s More: |; on Ewing; 2; on Samnoea. J. !
Umpires-Kane and KLEIN.
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Wichita 3. Lincoln 2.

Wichita, Kan, May 3.-Wichita won
the opening game from Lincoln. Ned
Pettigrew featured with a home run
drive in the fifth inning scoring one
man ahead of him. Davidson for
Lincoln put the ball over the left field
fence. The other Lincoln score was
the result of a base on balls to Sulli-
van and hits by Hockenberry and
Waldron. Roberts walked for Wich-
tia and scored on Westerzi1s hit Bren-
nan pitched great ball for Wichita.
With the bases full in two different
innings and only one man out Bren-
nan famed the next two hitters
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DIR. ROLLER is COMING.
Will Meet Joe Rogers at the Grand
May II.


In addition to the wrestling match
next Saturday scheduled for Lippert
and Luvine, Topeka will have a big
match next Tuesday. May II, when
DIR. Roller, who Is probably the great
est wrestler in the country outside of
Champion Gotch will meet Joe
Rogers. of Buffalo, N. Y, one of the
most formidable contenders for the
heavyweight honors.
The match viii take place at the
Grand. and extensive advertising will
be done to make the bout a success.
The wrestling game is new here. but
has been boosted all over the country
and is fast coming into its own as one
of the great American sports.
DIR. Roller, is the well known
Seattle physician, who met the cham
pion, Frank Gotch in Convention hall
last Tuesday night. Roller was de-
feated but he lasted longer with
Gotch than did Raoul de Rouen, or
Yussiff Marmout, the two foreign
champions who have met Gotch with
in the past few months.
At the conclusion of this match,
Gotch stated that he considered Roll
Ter his greatest adversary. 1t will be
an event well worth seeing. Some To-
cal events will probably be used as
curtain raisers.
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ANNOUNCES THREE FIGHTS
Nelson VIII Meet Dick HyIand, Cy
clone Thomson and Mcfarland.

Chicago. May 3--Battling Nelson an
nounced last night he would fight Fight
ing Dick Hyland and Cyclone johnny
Thompson before meeting Packey Nc
Farland. The matches will take place
as follows. according to Nelson:
.-Hyland fight at Colma. Cal, May
%, As rounds, 1913 pounds ringside.
pounds ringside-"
Nelson also made the formal offer to
meet Mcfarland September at CoIma
for a 45 round match. the weight to be
l33 pounds four hours before the bat
tle-
Nelson demanded a 5000 side bet
with Mcfarland
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Umpire Dugan is making a great hit
with the Pueblo fans for his work In
the games thus far this season.
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Ducky Holmes has sent a young
catcher, Clapper, to the Superior Wis
consin team. Lew Drill, who was re-
leased by Topeka, is manager of the
Superior team.
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JOHNNY BELTZ HURT.
Young Boy Throws Rock and Hurts
His Head.

While riding in from the ball park
yesterday afternoon, Johnny Beltz
one of the southpaw pitchers of the
team was seriously insured. by a rock
which was thrown by a youngster and
which struck Beltz just back of the
ear. The injuries, while not serious
will keep Beltz out of the game for
few days.
The youngster was trying to steal a
ride on the way in. A man sitting
near Beltz pushed the boy off, which
aroused some degree Of wrath in the
mental portion of the youngster He
grabbed a rock about the size of a
mans fist. but his Workmanship was
poor, and he hit Be1tz instead. A
large bruise was the result, and
Beltz was taken to his room where
a physician shaved away a portion of
his hair and dressed the wound.
Beltz was stunned by the blow but
was not unconscious.
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Ducky Holmes when in Topeka one
day about two years ago. said that the
next time he came to Topeka he would
win from Cooley's team. Ducky was
at the time with Lincoln. but his pre-
diction would hardly have come true in
either case.
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PERFECT REF to- TONIC

ordinary health
attacked spell
s. VIII be found both and tonic qualities combined
the blood thus supplying certain means for strength and
spsndidy fitted needs Of
body. SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.. ATLANTA, GA
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Des NIoines 6. Denver 8.

Denver, Col, May 3.-Superb pitch
ing in the pinches by Biersdorfer al
lowed Des Moines to win yesterdays
game by a score Of 6 to 8. Twice dur
ing the game in the sixth and eighth
innings the Denver team had the
bases filled but could score in neither
instance. Both teams put up a poor
fielding game, and errors figured in
the run getting. Pitcher Jackson of
the Denver team was wild and was
succeeded by Rick Adams, a popular
southpaw, in the ninth inning.
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Toledo s. Columbus 9.

Columbus, O., May S.-Toledo had
Columbus. to 2. in the eighth yes
terday but rally started by Josh
Clarke with a double and completed
by Geyer's long single tied the score.
The home team won in the eleventh
on hits by Congalton and Larue, Lat
timore's error and passed ball.
Catches by Mccarthy, Seybold and
Daubert beat Columbus out of runs
in the early innings.
Score by innings: R. HE
Columbus MO 92oo006e0 10 Il 0
Toledo .......-.-...2 90 o o 0|S 16 8
Batteries: Columbus, Goodwin.
Schantze and James: Toledo, McCur-
dy. baltimore and Clark.
Stolen bases-James, Daubert. Bases
on balls-Oh Goodwin 5. off Schantze
., off McCurdy 8, of baltimore 2. Two
base hit. Clarke. Three base hit
Mccarthy. Home run Clarke.
Double plays-James to Odwe1l,
O'Rourke to Larue to Odwe1l. Hit by
pitched ball-Hinchman, Elwert
Struck out-By Schantze 1, by Geyer
1. by McCurdy 2. by baltimore 2.
Passed bail-W. Clarke Wild pitch
Umpire-King.
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TROUBLE BREWING.
Potwin Seabrook Church League
Game Forfeited.

Oh a question of eligibility President
Howard of the church league forfeit
ed Saturdays game between the Pot
win and Seabrook team to Seabrook
when the score stood rs to for Pot
win.
Potwin played an ineligible player
and President Howard forfeited the
game on this account. Potwin's man.
ager maintains, however. that Sea-
brook also played an ineligible and the
Potwin team wants the game thrown
out. They will put it up to President
Howard
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Pueblo 10. Omaha 8.

Pueblo, Col, May "a home run
by First Baseman Clark of the local
team won Sundays game from Oma-
ha in the eighth inning. Mite and
Spencer were occupying the bases,
when Clark drove one down the first
line which went clear to the fence and
passed for a home run. Fifteen hits
were secured from the pair of Omaha
twirlers. Price was taken out in the
first inning and Saunders who was
substituted was hit at will.