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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
MEET DEATH IN MINE.
SEVEN MEN DEAD AND THREE
INJURED IN FIRE IN A
NEVADA MINE.
Accident Caused by Oil Explosion,
the Men Being Caught on the
1,4oo-Foot Level and Forced
to Pass Through Flames.

Ely. Nev.-Seven men met death
and three others were seriously in.
iured early Thursday in a fire which
swept the new Accompaniment shaft
of the Giroux-Gonsolidated Mines
company here. Two bodies remain
in the workings. Both shafts of the
mine have been sealed to smother
the flames.
The fire was caused. 1t is believed,
by the explosion of a barrel of oil
at the pumping station on the 1900
foot level of the new shaft. Ten men
were working At the 1,400-foot level
at the time, and they looked up to see
the shaft above them filled with
flames.
They at once boarded the cage anS
started for the surface. They en-
countered the flames at the 1,2O0-foot
level and stopped.
Five Of the men left the cage and
started to walk through the 1,20O-foot
level to the old Alpha shaft, 700 feet
away, through which they hoped to
climb out of the mine.
The five men remaining in the cage
gave the signal to hoist and were
pulled through the blazing shaft. One
was dead when the top was reached
and the others were taken to a hos
pital.
The work of rescuing the five mel
remaining in the mine was then al
tempted through the Alpha shaft, bu
without success.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
LITTLE LenIenex Expected.

Washington.-Settlers under west-
ern reclamation projects may expect
very little leniency from Director
Newell in the matter of deferred pay
ments. Interviewed here upon his
return from his tout of the northwest,
Director Newell made the significant
statement THAT there was nothing
paternalistic in the governments IT.
rigation work" and suggested that
they must be educated to make them
understand that success will come
only to the man who works hard and
studies conditions around him."
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
COACHES GO OVER TRESTLE
Score or More of Passengers Killed
in Peculiar Accident to Train
Which Carried Veterans.

Manchester, N. Y.-Twenty-ive per-
sons are known to have lost their
and between fifty and sixty to
have been injured, many OF them ser
.ously. in the wreck of Lehigh Valley
train No. A on a trestle near here on
Friday.
Two crowded cars. plunging off the
structure, were hurled against the
stone embankment and dropped to the
bed of Canandaigua outlet, forty-hve
feet below, when the fast running
eastbound train was derailed and
broken in twain on the viaduct. An
other car rolled down the embank-
ment beyond the river. The remain
ing eleven cars of the train kept the
roadbed.
The first car which went over, a
day coach, plunged to the creek bed
and was crushed upon the rocks. II
landed upon its side and few OF the
occupants escaped death or serious
injury. The following a plunged
head-frst into the chasm and will
the forward end resting in the creek
stood balanced almost perpendicular
ly.
The train carried many veterans re
turning from the G. A. r. encampmen
at Rochester, and at least two OF tn
old soldiers are known to have gon
to their death in the wreck. A larg
proportion of those killed and inture
were
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
TO LABOR.

Shall you complain who feed the world
Who ciothe the worid7
Who house the world?
Shall you complain who are the world,
OF what the world may dor
AS from this hour
You use your power,
The world must follow you.
The worlds life hangs IN your right
hand.
Your strong right hand.
Your skilled right hand:
You hold the whole world In pour hand
See TO 1t what you do!
Or dark or light,
OF wrong or right.
The world IL made by youl
Then rise as you ne'er rose before.
Nor hoped before.
Nor dared before,
And show as meier was shown before.
The power that lies in you!
Stand ali as one
Till right Ia done!
- believe and dare and do!
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
DEATH STEERS IN RACE.
Two Killed in Automobile Road Race
at EIain, illinois.

81 1iStbt
Elgin, m.-The 305-mile automobile
road race on Saturday, won by Len
Zengel in a National, with Harry
Grant second and Hugh Hughes
third, was not accomplished without
it's toll of death and injuries.
David Buck, veteran Chicago auto
mobile racer, was within eleven laps
OF the finish, going sixty-four miles
an hour on the back stretch, when
his right forward wheel threw a tire.
The machine turned a somersault
and Sam Jacobs, mechanician. was
instantly killed. Bucks back was
broken and he died Saturday even
ing.
Another accident. in which thirty
were injured. mostly slightly, occur
red while the first lap of the race
was or Several sections of the
poorly built grandstand gave way
but the thousands of spectators were
not dropped entirely to the ground
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
PORTUGAL POLITICS MuoDLEo.
Republican Party Divided, While
Strikes Are Threatening.
While

Lisbon.-The political situation in
Portugal is taking a serious turn. The
Republican party is completely divtd-
ed. The advanced element d the
leadership of Alfonso Costa. provis-
ional minister of Justice, and the con-
s~ervative section, under Antonio AL
media, provisional minister of the in
terror, and Senior Camacho, declared
open war at the elections for the pres
idency. the Moderates winning the
day.
Strikes threaten to have a serious
effect on the country. Forty thous'
and cork cutters, lightermen and gem
eral Jock workers are now out. The
Diaro Noticas reports that at Moita,
Armada, Aldegallega. Alcohete n
other villages opposite Lisbon, which
are centers of the cork cutting indus
try, the people are abandoning their
homes in fear of acts of violence.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
SAMUEL GoMPERS.
Efficiency a Union Ideal

skilled men in our ranks, enlisted un
der the banner of trade unionism. In
every city costly buildings are being
erected in which not only are the ma
terials the finest but the highest class
of skilled labor Is required. Many OF
the more skillful workmen become ex-
perts In the various branches OF the
building trades. The fact that men
are organized and meet every week
to discuss enconomic and social ques-
lions does not make them less, but
more intelligent. They take pride In
their union.
Among the members Of trade unions
are the highest skilled workmen. who
also represent the highest type Of cit
izenship. Men who come together for
mutual improvement are prompted by
the Hottest motives.
As good citizens, the trade unionisti
are continually working and spending
| their money for the uplifting OF hu
manity. We have reduced the hours
of labor and raised the rate Of wages
and shared them freely with the non
union man, who has allowed himsel
to become the dupe Of the employs
who has raised the question as t
the efficiency of union labor.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
fundamental principles under

ywEaHE fundamental principles under
lying tae constitution of the unit
ed brotherhood of carpenters
and joiners of America compel
us to recognize that the interests Of all
classes of labor are identical. We
hold it as a sacred principle that trade
union men, above all others, should
set an example az good and faithful
workmen, performing their duty to
their employers with honor to them
selves and to their organization.
The mechanic, of whatever trade
he may be. In taking this obli-
CATION, feels 1t his dnty to become
more skilled, and for tho honor of his
organization he becomes more indus
trious and takes a greatsf Interest In
his work, knowing that hiA employer,
who has been carefully watching him,
will be more willing to accsae to any
reasonable request that his nalon may
make in the form Of shorter hours,
higher wages or more humane condi.
tions.
/ am we'll aware that the unfair EN-
| ployer holds that nonunion labor Is
more efficient than unicn labor, xad
that his arguments have had sorhs
weight in forming public sentiment
against us in the past. But the fac
still remains that we have the bss'
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
nl.annearsd on weddina DAY.

Butte, Mont.-The badly decompos-
ed remains Of Mrs. Jessie Moore, an
attractive young widow. who disap-
peared mysteriously in July just prior
to the date set for her wedding, were
found late Thursday In the rear of the
Columbia Gardens, a pleasure resort
east of Butte. The authorities are
not able to determine whether muir
der or suicide was the of death.
William Dobson. a miner. the womanss
iance. was arrested.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
= RGANIZED labor's ideal Of q

- RGANIZED labor's ideal OF a
short workday changes with
varying conditions. At inc time
1t was customary to work IL or
more hours per day, but as civilization
advanced the working day has been
steadily reduced.
In reducing the hours of labor he
unions have been chiefly instrumental,
as they have in various trades estab-
lisLed a. shorter workday and then fol-
lowed it up by legislation wherever
they have been strong enough.
Though eight hours" may be the
objective which organized labor now
seeks to accomplish, 1t does not fol-
low that eight hours is ideal, or that
It will be the goal of the future. The
short-hour movement rests funda-
mentiy upon necessity.
"The constant improvement in ma
chinery and consequent displacement
Of labor, together with the further dis
placement of labor by the tendency
toward consolidation in all lines of in
dustry, must ultimately compel us to
choose between three things: First,
we may shorten the hours Of labor to
distribute opportunity for employment,
or, second, we may tax property to
support the idle, or, third, we may
have revolution"
This mastery and unaswerable sum
ming up Of the underlying causes OF
the short-hour movement was by Q
statesman, no less than the late
Thomas B. Reed.
1t follows that as long as machinery
and methods continue SO to improve
that less and less hours are required
for productive labor. the ideal work
Ing day will be shorter and shorter.
Labor does not expect to live with
out work-it complains that there. ar
too many who live without work, an'
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
LOOKS BAD FOR eEATTlE.
Cousin of Man Accused of Numbering
Wife Swears That Prisoner Ad-
mltted Crime.

Chesterfield Courthouse, Va.-Paul
D. Beattie, cousin of Henry Clay
Beattie, Jr., who stands indicted for
the murder of his wife, testified late
Monday that the accused had told
him twenty-four hours after the muir
der how sorry he was "he had done
it" a circumstance relating to the
crime that the witness hitherto had
suppressed.
Coming as dramatically and as un-
expectedly as the pathetic tale of an
hour before of Mrs. R. v. Owen,
mother of the dead woman, as to the
domestic infelicity of her daughter,
the brief but thrilling testimony
given by Paul Beattie created a pro-
found sensation.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
Changing Ideal

1t would like to make the hours short
enough 80 that all will have to work.
It notes that banking and profess
sional men work five hours or less,
and hopes to reach the same ideal
some time.
To provide work for the idle affects
the supply Of and demand for labor
and favorably affects wages-as all
short-hour trades well know-but the
| desire of the worker to have some
| time for recreation and amusement
stimulates the demand for shorter
hours.
AS our wage-earners become better
educated they become more deter
mined to have more of the benefit of
labor-saving machinery.
They desire more leisure that their
industrial life may be prolonged.
They desire their fellow-men to be
employed.
They desire good wages and realize
that to preserve them their fellow
men must be employed.
The late George e. Mcneil, called
the father OF the eight-hour move.
ment, said Eight hours for work,
eight hours for rest, eight hours for
what we will"
This seems like an equitable divis
ion as long as eight hours is the OBJ
j~ective, but as invention follows inven
tion, it is likely the figures will have
to be revised.
The ideal short hour workday is the
shortest day possible that will give
good wages, and give the largest meas
ure of freedom, recreation and enjoy
ment to the worker, enabling him Il
support his family, educate his chill
dren. and lay aside something for thu
rainy day.
IL SAMUEL GOMPERS.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
sattIeshIp utah Ready for service.

Washington.-A powerful addition
to the navy vas made on Saturday,
August rs, when the new battleship
Utah was turned over to the govern
ment at Philadelphia and ordered to
join the Atlantic feet at Hampton
Roads. The great sea fighter is OF
the super-dreadnaught class and
bears enormous batteries of ten.
twelve and thirteen-inch guns. She
will carry 400 officers and men.
Captain w. S. Benson will command
her.
The Utah is equipped with oil
burners to be used when coal runs
out, or when more advantageous un'
der battle conditions to avoid smoke,
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
AVIATOR MAKES LONG FLIGHT.
Atwood Completes Trip from St. Louit
to New York in Aeroplane.

TO NCW EOTN w HStOP'eiS.
New York.-Sailing serenely over
New York's myriad water craft, its
ferryboats and ocea liners, Harry s.
Atwood, the Boston aviator, arrived
in New York in his ~aeroplane on Fri
day, the first man in history to trav-
ell as far as from St. Louis to New
York by way of Chicago in a heavier
than-air machine.
Atwood's flight is comparable only
to that made by fast trains, for he
covered the distance in an actual fly
ing timc of % hours and "a minutes.
Atwood's final lap in his long jour
ney was a glide of twenty-five miles
from Nyack, where he had stopped
overnight. He landed. smiling. hatless
and hungry, in the arms of a hand
full Of United States army o1icerx
and men who hailed him as Ameri
cas- greatest aviator.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
NoveIIst eIames Poet.

New York.-Upton Sinclair, author
and socialist. issued a statement We'd
nesday night saying that as soon as
he could get in touch with HIS lawyer
and have the necessary legal papers
drawn, it was his purpose to enter
suit against his wife for divorce. He
said he would name as correspondent
a young western poet, who ecently
was a visitor at the Sinclair summer
home at Arden. Del.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
Girl Leads AoId-ups.

Chicago.-Led by a 20-year-old girl,
four men held up Casimir Kranz on
Friday and robbed him of a gold
watch and SIS. then severely beat him
and threw him over a fence into a
ward Detectives who witnessed the
hold-up captured Kitty Klinski, leader
of the band. and Paul Mawrot, IL
a old, after a revolver fight in
which half a dozen shots were fired.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
Insurance Companies Condemned.

Milwaukee Wis.-The special com
mittee of the insurance commission
ers of the United States made pub
lie at Milwaukee. August %, a report
of it's Investigations. In this report
the business methods of a number OF
industrial, heath and accident insur-
ance companies were very strongly
criticised by the committee. which at
the same time made public a list OF
fourteen insurance companies whose
methods it had examined.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
sRooDINe CAUSED TRAGEDY.
Grief Over Death of Wife Causes
Englishman to Murder Three
Children and Suicide.

Thomaston Me.-Grief over the
death of his wife led Edward Ben
nett, an E~nglisman, and a graduate
of oxford university, who has been
a resident here for the last six years,
to murder his three children and
then take his own life on Monday.
Two of the children we're killed by
the use of chloroform, and the third
by cyanide of potassium and chloro-
form. To make his own death GER
tain, the man went to the waters
edge and there took a dos of eva
hide of potassium and jumped In. His
body was found when the tide re-
coded.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
widows Win Their suit.

ehicago.-Widows of the "a fire.
men killed in the stockyards Decem-
her 81. 1910, won a victory In their
6ght for an immediate distribution OF
the relief fund of $4,000 raised for
their benefit, when Judge Cooper on
saturday entered an order directing
the relief committee 10 make the dis
I rihutiOn.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
crlckets Destroy orasshopper EGGS.

Minneapolis.-M. P. Somers, grass
hopper expert, state department of
entomology, after a summer-long in
vestigation In the grasshopper infest-
ed districts of Minnesota and the Red
River valley. declares the criekets
have an Unsuitable appetite for grass
hoppers' eggs and are eating them by
the millions.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
Girl MasqueradIna as Boy.

Salt Lake City.-Beatrice Knitting,
aged II, has disappeared from her
home in this city and is supposed to
be roaming around dressed In boys
clothing. Some time Friday night
the girl donned a suit of her broth.
er's clothes, and clipping her long
hair. wrapped this in her own cloth
ing and hid the bundle in the cellar
way OF an adjoining house. Since
then she has not been seen.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
All &c. Love of Woman.

Denver.-Estranged from his bride
of two months and seeing no hope
of a reconciliation, Emile Verbursghe.
aged 81, shot himself through the
right temple Saturday night while
seated on the porch of the residence
Of Jean Mignoliet. Belgian consul,
where his wife has been living since
the separation.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
Exchange lands.

Washington.-.ne state of Idaho
and the United States government
have agreed to exchange about 60O.-
GOO acres of land in h a state so that
each may have its lands In a more
compact body than at present.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
Protest Against tllqh Prices.

Brest, France.-Two professions of
housewives. in protest against the
prevailing high cost of food were
checked and dispersed by the police
Monday when they threatened the
market men with violence. The prices
of butter and eggs, however, were
reduced following the demonstration.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
CYCLONE STRIKES CHARLESTON
Seven Persons Killed and Many In
jured az Result of Windstorm
in South Carolina.

Charleston, s. C.-Seven persons
known to be dead, many injured and
property damage of more nan ST.
900, 900 is the damage wrought by the
storm which struck Charleston Sun
day afternoon, ~isolating that city
from the rest Of the world.
The greatest injury to the city is in
being cut off from all wire communi-
cation. The wreckage among houses
along the waterfront has been extern
sive. Telephone and telegraphic wires
and poles are down owe the city.
plate-glass windows broken and all
business is at a s%tandstill.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
aandl,s Release Or. Richter.

Salonika, T~urkey.-Dr. Edmund
the German engineer, who
captured May 25 by Greek ban
dts. is now on his way to the Turk
ish frontier, having been released by
his captors, when they were hard
pressed by the Turkish troops sent
ont 10 rescue him. The bandits de-
handed a ransom of 1926, 900 for his
roIpaaPz
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
chlcaqo's Population.

Chicago.-Chicago's population is
now 2,264,1S4, according to announce
ment made by the publishers of the
new city directory. These figures
show an increase of 1891 over the
federal census made a year ago.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
Breaks Motor Record.

Terre Haute. Ind.-Charles Herman
of Terre Haute, in the Terre Haute
motorcycle clubs 100-mile race at the
Vigo county fair grounds Sunday,
broke the worlds motorcycle record.
His time was 2 hours, 10 minutes,
So 1-5 seconds.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
Rebels occupy Jlpljapa.

Vinces, Ecuador.-Rebels under Col
onel Carlos Alfaro have occupied the
of Jipijapa. The cruiser Boil
var with 200 men. sailed from here
Friday or Man Manta to join the 800
government troops now operating in
Manibi under General Trivino.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
Authorized to Call Election.

Phoenix. Ariz.-Governor Sloan on
Monday received from President Taft
official certiication of the passage
of the statehood resolution which au-
thorizes him to issue a proclamation
for an election of state officers and
Tor a vote on the recall of the judic-
larry clause of the original constitu-
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
RIver GUS New Channel.

Manhattan. Kan.-Recent heavy
rains In. Nebraska and northern Kan.
sas have caused the Blue river to cut
a new channel and change its course
at this point, thus causing this city
to lose one of it's beautiful views
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
wnmen Enter Politics.

PHILADELPHIA new political party.
the object of which will be to de-
feat instead of elect candidates for
public offices will be formed in Phil
adelphia by prominent society and suf-
fragette leaders.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
FAVOR the Aurd Law.

Denver. Colo.-The executive board
of the Western Federation of Miners
went on record Friday in favor of he
Hurd eight-hour law and authorized
a vigorous campaign to keep the bill
from being referred I the people
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
y,l Launch la toilette Boom.

Duluth, Mlnn.-Local men who
rank as progressive Republicans
have received invitations to a ban
quet in Minneapolis, September z, at
which a boom for Senator La Fol-
lette for president is to be launched.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
Picture Man.Iniured.

San Francisco.-Isaac Burns, an op-
orator of a m~oving-picture machine,
was probably fatally injured by the
explosion of a film in the Hayes Street
theater Sunday. None of the spec
tators were injured.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
NEGRO Makes Escape.

Durant, Okla.-After searching eigh-
teen hours for an unknown negro
who attempted to assault Mrs. A. Will
kerson at Colbert, fifteen miles south
of here, Saturday evening. the pur-
suit was dropped by the sheriff.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
VIGOROUS campaLen in canada.

ottawa, ont-The Canadian cleo
ton precipitated by the. American
reciprocity treaty is in full blast, and
is one OF the most heated campaigns
ever hid III Canada.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
Iannford prona Another Dub.

New York.-Sam Langford, the
Boston heavyweight, knocked out
Tony Ross of Pittsburg in the sixth
round of their scheduled ten-round
bout at the National Sporting |
here Thursday night.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
Tohaoco crop short.

Lexington, Ky.-The Burnley to-
bacco crop of Kentucky, which was
last year estimated to be 300 ,0OO,oOO
pounds, will not amount to more
than O,OOO, 900 this year. 1t is believ-
ed. owing to drought.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-01
losses Sweetheart Into Lake.

Holland, Mieh.-Angered, he said,
because Grace Lyons of Chicago broke
her promise of marriage, Walter Hop
per of Chicago attacked her on board
the steamer Puritan in mid-lake and
tossed her overheard. Her body was
not recovered.