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Evening journal., 1911-07-11
DONKEY AND ELEPHANT
ARE COMING THIS WAY

The donkey and elephant which are
racing from Coney Island to Wash
ington, on a wager, will arrive in
this city on Thursday The police
have been requested to furnish a po-
liceman TO act as escort upon the ar
rival OF the racers.
Evening journal., 1911-07-11
CAPTAIN EYANs ENTERTAINs.

Captain of Police Evans whose new
bungalow at Silver Run near Port
Penn was finished last week was used
last Sunday by Captain Evans in en-
tertaining the members of the Kirk
wood Outing Club ana their families.
There we're 36 persons in the party.
Evening journal., 1911-07-11
MAKES GUNNFRs WFLCONFE.

The interior Of the Hotel Winning
ton. headquarters for many gunners
who are participating in the Eastern
Handicap at the DUPONT Gun Clubs
grounds, Is artistically decorated
with shells, targets and flags.
Evening journal., 1911-07-11
GERMAN GETS
ALL HIS BIRDS
Breaks rs Straight in First
Day Shoot Of Eastern
Handicap
WOMEN SHOTS SMASH
TARGETS IN EXHIBITION

With weather conditions all that
could be desired, the first days pro-
gram of the Eastern Handicap Tour
nament was started at 8 o'clock this
morning on the DUPONT Gun Club
grounds. Twenty-Five squads, consist
ing of six shooters each, shot at Is
targets in each of the ten events.
The shooters appeared to suffer from
the heat and with few exceptions no
remarkable shooting was done. One
thing noticeable was the presence Of
a large number of professional shoot
ers who outclassed the amateurs.
Among the shooters were two women,
Mrs Adolph Topperwein, of st. An
tonic, Texas. and Mrs. Burrows, Of St.
Louis, Mo. Both women we're shooting
in fine form.
At o'clock this afternoon Lester T.
German, of Aberdeen, Md, had par
ticipated in FIVE events and had a per-
feet score of rs. This was not equalled
during the morning and much COM
ment was heard owing to the defeating
of German for the Hazard trophy by
Fred Gilbert yesterday.
Mrs. Topperwein attired m a black
and white suit and wearing a brown
cap was a feature while Mrs Bur-
rows with large Panama hat, trim
med with black ribbons, showed plain
ly that she could handle a gun. Fol-
lowing the shoot this afternoon the
contestants will be given auto rides
and dinner will be served at the viii.
mington Country Club. The scores al
/ o'clock we're:
Squad No. 1.
"F. Bills. IA Is 15 Is Is IA IA IA
Evening journal., 1911-07-11
DOG OWNER ARRESTED.

Joseph Copra was arrested this af-
ternoon on a charge Of allowing his
unmuzzled dog 10 run at large.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-28

, larger but they preferred to let the
people in many sections of the city
suffer for water in a vain effort to
force them to favor a renewal of the
franchise. All progressive cities have
realized the necessity of the city own
ing the public utilities. Municipal
owned water and light plants have
not only proved a saving to the CON
sumers, but are a source Of revenue
to the city. This is no time to con-
slider the granting of a NV fran
chise but it is time to take the neces-
seary steps to force the Kanawha
ater and Light Co. to live up to the
terms of their present franchise or
forfeit it. 1t is also time to take
steps towards the buying or building
city owned plant. Don't waste any
more time squabbing over the terms
Of an impossible franchise but rather
set to work in dead earnest to see
what it will cost to establish a new
plant and devise ways and means to
carry out our finding. The citizens
are Watching their counclmcn's act
ions on this franchise question, and
we feel that the majority of that bod V
are looking at this question in the
same light that we are. but woe unto
those who betray their trust if they
ever ask another favor at the hands
OF the uJIblic
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-28
THE FRANCHISE OUES-
7YON LOOMS UP BIG
All Together for Public Owned Water and
Light Plant

The kanawha Water and Light
Company will go before Council next
Mondoy night and ask for renewal
or their franchise. This is matter
IN which every citizen of our city
should take an interest. The giving
private monopoly a franchise on a
public necessity for long term of
years is a serious question as it effects
not only the present generation but
the rising generations as we'll. Water
Is public necessity and the question
lis should it not be publicly owned?
Our past experience with the present
water and light monopoly has been
very unsatisfactory. Their treatment
OF the public has been uncivil, harsh
and oppressive. The city has been
forced to put up with poor service
and the consumers were charged cx-
tortionate rates.
The Water and Light corporation
nave grown rich at the Dublics en-
pcnse. Last year their receipts
amounted to the enormous sum of
81 100000. Charleston is "A grow
ing city and every year will mean
a larger and larger income to the
Water and Light plant. If the pres
ent company had made the necessary
eXtention in compliance with their
franchise their receipts last year
would have been at least one fourth
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-28

on Cabin Creek, near Kainfork. The
last seen OF the engineer alive, he was
riding railroad velosipede with !.
Baldwin guard standing on the axel
later the dead body of Will Anderson
was found by the railroad track anC
from the cuts and bruises about the
head, he was evidently murdered
But these criminals guilty of assault
robbery and murder, were not Yet sat
isfed: suspicion points to them as
being guilty of arson as well. Who
burneu the company stables at Decota
One guard was heard to remark tc
another, to the effect. 81 nat somethine
would soon fall" meaning that If
something didn't happen the coal com
pany would discharge SOME Of the
guards: a few nights later the stables
were burned.
These are not all the crimes direct
ly traceable to the detectives, as some
will never be known and space VIII
not permit us to enumerate them all.
When these guards spot a man they
wish to assault they always try to
pick quarrel, or get into a contro-
Versy of some kind. An old trick of
theirs is to slip an old pistol into their
victims pocket, and arrest them for
carrying concealed weapons, beat them
up and take them before one of the
fixed Justices and have the poor VIC
tim sent to jail for six months and
fined all the money on his person.
All the crimes we have listed have
been committed; We can name the
guards guilty of the assaults ana mur-
ders in many cases, but what have
our authorities done to protect the life
and liberties of these working men?
to account for any OF these crimes
The strong arm of the law is para
lyzed and palsied when it comes to
the rights and lives of the
working class, but let the property of
the masters be endangered and you
cam see how quick the powerful arm of
the law will be put into action.
Are conditions any worse than
those pictured here in Russia or bar
borous Mexico? The coal baron rules
West Virginia and our officials are
but puppets to jump and do the bid
ding of their masters,
How much longer, Oh! patient and
long suffering people are you going to
submit to these damnable conditions?
Have you and yours not suffered
enough already? Ther, go to the polls
next year and vote these conditions
out of existence by voting the Soci.;is,
ticket. Elect the Socialist to office in
kanawha county in 1912 and it will be
moving day with the guards.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-28
DOES SILENCE
GIVE CONSENT?

! premises what steps shall we pur
| sue what direction take, in order t,
| smoke these grafters out into tn,
open! II we had boiler shop'i ant
| were industriously and continuousl,
rlvetils facts-making noise enough
| to be heard around the world. the peo
pie would not be fooled by the idle
f1apping of thea sails of windmill
which goes the way the wind goes
answers nothin g--does nothing, ex.
cept to flipflop in extravagant ,laneu.
age~which, likt Mother Hubbard
| covers everything but touches moth
ing.
We have made noise, but the noise
cannot be smothered by dust from the
air MILL
The noise has gone forth into the
nils, through the valleys, reverbratett
and reSounding from the mountains,
has come back in loud echoes. repeat
ing the oft asked but never answered
question-ARE THOSE CHARGES
TRUE?
Dust we are, and unto dust shalt
we return, but the living, breathing,
pa1pitating thrObbing question is
ARE THOSE CHARGES TRUE? You
may prate In the most beautiful Ian
guage in Rhetoric, discourse with the
wisdom OF Solomon; descent with all
the grace, art and matchless, elo-
qucIce and oratoricaI genius of
Dem osthenes, but it sufIices nothing
in this matter, for the case cannot
be hidden beneath the dust of sophis-
try, for the oft repeated question still
confronts you-ARE THOSE CHARG-
ES TRUE? The glamor of big words
are neither embarrassing nor divert
ing, they neither kill, lcripple nor
scare, nor do they answer the ques-
ton. Every honest man is asking
ARE THOSE CHARGES TRUE?
Have we in the city administration
LIARS, THIEVES, PERJURERS,
GRAFTERS, ADULTERERS. Straw
Bonders and ,such as charged-ARE
THOSE CHARGES TRUE?
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-28
The Crimes of the Guard System
In Russianized West Virginia

both United Mine Workers officials
were beaten up at Itayford, on Cabin
Creek, by guards and forced to wade
the creek to get away; were not al
lowed to walk the public road. H. A.
Woodruff, assaulted: by guard, i-,
Charleston
Wade Perry, merchant at North
Carbon, on Cabin Creek, was assaulted
and beaten by the guards in his own
store. Charley Massie. assaulted by
guard at LeewOod, on Cabin Creek:
Watkins and Garnes, National Board
Members of the U. M. w. of A, were
assaulted and beaten by guards in
Clarksburg, W. Va,
Hargrove and Boyles, National Or
ganizcrs We're beaten and assaulted
on a Norfolk and Western passenger
train and left for dead. James Jones
and Robt. Slack were shot by Baldwin
guards at Cabin Creek Junction.
AL Deck, Il National Organizer was
horribly beaten by guards on Loup
Creek, had his leg broken in three
places, was placed on the railroad
track and left for dead, but was
picked up by the crew of shifting
engine and sent to hospital at Char
lesion. where he laid, lowering be-
tween life and death for weeks, but
finally recovered sufficiently to get
about. yet he must go through the re-
mainder of his life a broken, maine ed
and crippled man. Bob Wicks, a pay
master for one of the miners was held
up and robbed by one of these dctec-
tive thugs and just few days later
a paymaster was murdered and robbed
at Rock in Mercer county and all in
dication points that the same man did
both jobs. The detective who robbed
Bob Wicks was arrested and tried
for the offense, but the Baldwin Detec-
tive Agency with heir armed thugs
to intimidate the witnesses and tn cir
influence with the coal barons who
controlled the courts We're able to get
him out of the scrape by agreeing to
send him out of the State, which was
done. though all evidence introduced
showed the detective was guilty of the
crime charged Some time prior to the
robbery Of v nicks: this same detective
had proposed to another guard that
they go over to Minden. a coal works
not far from Thurmond and rob a
paymaster
At Berlyn. on Cabin Creek, one oi
the guards shot and killed a negro in
the upstairs of negro boarding
house. the negro when shot jumped
out of the window and fell dead or
the porch below Another guard was
seen to open a knife and drop it neal
the negro so that the murder cOulG
plead self defense, which he did be
fore one OF the coal baron Justices
and the case was dropped. Another
negro was shot and killed by guart
at Riley, Raleigh county.
An engineer was knocked in tht
head by one of the Feltzs. at Thur
| mond who was arrested and Jailed fo1
the crime but was bonded out by the
coal operators lawyer. c. w. Dillon
| Th" detective later sl>iDped his bono
and now: Mr. Dillon refuses to pay the
authorities the amount of the bond
| One of the most dastardiy crimes
committed by these hired murd erer!
was the murder of Wsll Anderson. F..
railroad engineer, at the upper trestl,
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-28

Ill there is place on earth where
every right of citizenship is ruthless
~ tramDed beneath the feet of the
brutal tyrants, armed thugs and politi
cal traitors it is the nonunion and
guard ridden coal fields of West Vir-
ginia. Since the Introduction of the
Baldwin detective agencyain the New
River and Cabin Creek coal fields,
crime has increased instead of being
suppressed. More crimes have been
committed in Thurmond, Fayette Co
since the Baldwin Feltz detective
agency have made it their headquart-
ers than were ever know before. and
all of these crimes are traceable to
the detectives themselves. This Bald
win Detective Agency is nothing more
than a legalized Dand of Molly-Nc-
Guires, commissioned by the Governor
of the State and allowed to brutalize.
rob and murder the unprotected citizen
The murder of six or seven miners
at Stamford City, on Piney, in 1902
by posse OF coal operators and thugs
lead by United States deputy marshallS
was one of the most revolving and
cold blooded murders of innocent
working men that was ever commit
OF no crime; their only offence was
they had dared to strike against un-
bearable conditions. The posse lead
by deputy marshalls, went to Stanford
City in the night arriving just before
day light. The first warning the min
ers had of their presence came when
they were awaken from their sleep by
the ,btllts fired through their thin
l., I,
bent on murder. Men were shot down
like dogs as they ran from the houses
in their night clothes: several being
killed outright and many more wound
ed
An active union miner named Har-
less realized that it was death to
leave shelter during the firing and
remained in the house until after da Y
light, but when he attempted to
leave he was shot dead from ambush.
Was anything done about this whole
| sale murder of the innocent? No, il
| was done in the name of the law. The
| authorities took the words Of the men
/ who did the numbering. But that was
| just a beginning of the tryannical RUE
of the outlaws.
| Below we submit partial list Of
| the men VINO nave becn SluSSed, as
| suited. beat robbed and murdered by
| the licensed Molly -NcGuireS at the
behest of the coal barons. With few
| executions the men assaulted by the
| supposed railroad detectives were
| Union mine workers officials. Ths
| list is as follows: Geo. Doolcy. assault.
| eu at Bramwcll, w. Va; John Ireland
| assaulted at Thurmond. w Va: Hill.
| bord Ter, assaulted at Montgomery
| w. Na.:E. D. Altoon. travelling sales.
| man. assaulted and beat up by Bald
| win guard at Decota. w Va. on Ca b.
| in Creek: J. c. Wilkey. D. w. Will
| Jams and John Allen. the latter ar
old man over fifty years old. were
brutally beaten by gaurds on the
! Cabin Creek train.
Bert Powers and A. ]. Barber were
| assaulted and badly beaten by The
Baldwin thugs at Cabin Creek June
ton.
] V. D. Johnson and Charlie Cheek
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-28
Is The Kelly Axe
Factory in League
With Car Company?

Last Saturday. The Kelly Axe
Manufacturing Company laid off
about four hundred mon at noon
Saturday being pay day at the Axe
factory and from $3.50 to 4:3O P. NJ,
being the time this action on the
part of the management of the factory
either forced the men to spend an
hours time and donate a dime each
to the street car company or to wait
about the factory for three or four
hours for their pay. No doubt Mr..
Kelly knew he would lay these men
off in ample time to have prepared the
pay roll so he could have paid off at
noon and saved the men the trouble
and expense of having to go back to
the factory after their money. Ten
cents may not be much to Mr.. Kelly.
but it means a whole lot to work
ing man. This simply y meant that
four hundred working men were.
forced to donate 10 cents each to the
street car company, in other words it
meant forty dollars out of the pocl-
cts of the working class and forty
dollars in the pocket of the Street
Car Monopoly Mr.. Kelly is class
conscious. he wanted to help his bro
the exploiter
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-28
THE KNIGHT OF THE HOOK WORM

The dashing, reckless. dauntless,
magnificent, death-dealing valor and
utter abandon of the Captain: mani
tested in heroic action in a hundred
hotly contested, sweat rising battles
on the battle fields of the ballroom
as the brave leader of the German
entities him to the favorable consider
alton of his fellow citizens, for whom
he has done SO much and they should
display, in practical form, their ap-
probation of a gallant soldier. who
braved his breast to the storms of
ethical criticism. Who, that has read
of the sef-denying, self-effacement OF
this scaress and fearful veteran, as
written by himself, can deny the
statement that even tardy Justice has
not been meted out to him? Who
was ever Drawer in facing a loaded
camera than he? The government of
the United States-never unduly pre-
cipitate in acts of graeatefulness-has
remarked. and properly, and justly
| rewarCled-with a pension-the death
less valor of this local Alexander the
Great. And so long as he shall live
every three mOnths-will come an
autographed reminded from the seat
of government. as a testimonial from
graf eful people of their appreciation
of his herculea.l deeds the CORY
battle field of HOOTCHEY COOCHEY
A Kodak view, taken during the heat
of battle. shows the redoubtable
Captain charging the enemy with the
bravery of a fire-tested and battle
worn hero. Forward and back-charg-
| ing and falling back-the result hang
| ing in the balance. both sides contest
| ing every inch of the field-when the
| battle was. ended. it was not decisive.
| as both sides were exhausted and slept
| on each others arms that memorable
night
| Gentlemen of the Board of Affairs,
| in the humblcst manner we can as
| sumo we come as meek suppliants
| to the throne of appointment. and
| ask that you take into consideration
| what this daughty soldier suffered
| on Blaincs Island in defense of his
country-and give to him. as token
| of gratitude as a mark of responsive
| respect. the Office of City Solicitor
| Gentlemen has he not shown his
| capacity and learning in facing the
every lurking dangers of cotllllon
Did he not eat. sleep and fight NO
BODY, and Kill as many of the enemy
AS they killed of him? Did he not
on many occasions. lead the German
| to successful issue? What greater
| merit can man display than" this:
| What better recommendation do you
| need of his legal qualifications. anc
| honesty of purpose than those we
J have enumerated? Gentlemen ap'
point him and save the nation and the
| credit of our city.
Mankind is said to be divided into
two well defined classeS-foolS anf
CONTINUED ON PAGE Two.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-28

When farmers rearn the value of
cooperation. and how little value
there is in politics to them. they will
be able to control the situation that
confronts them-take what is offered
for their produce. and pay the price
the trusts ask for commodities. A
people as strong in numbers. and who
have it in their power to control the
world. as the farmers. are very foolish
to be made the tools of specula ii on
by men who live without toll.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-28

Mr.. Farmer, the trust is paying you
&c. a pound less for your seed otron
this year than YOU were paid year
ago. and the sugar and coffee trusts
have advanced the prices % per cent
on their products. Can you not see
how foolish you are to vote the Re-
publican or Democratic ticket? Con
gress could have prevented trusts
from doing business. and it was in the
power of that body to have robbed
Wall street spectators of their avo-
cation. but nothing was done for tho
relief of the poor.-EX.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-28

CONTINUED ON PAGE Two.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-28

Mankind is said to be divided into
two we'll defined class SeS-foolS ana
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1911-09-21
CITY COUNCIL
HOLDS MEETING

At the meeting of the city coun-
Gil Monday and Tuesday evenings
the purchase of new city scale
was made from G.. V. Fitzsimons,
of Minneapolis, representing the
How Scale company. The new
scale is a How, ball bearing 8x22
foot scale equipped with type re-
cording beam and will be built on
a concrete foundation with steel
platform and will give the place as
good a city scale as to be found
anywhere. ,~
The contract for sewering was
let to G.. H. Porrett of Fargo, his
bid being $184 below the lowest
other bid.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1911-09-21
COTTONWOOD LAKE
! IS FIRE SWEPT
MANY BUSINESS HOUSES DESTROYED
AMONG Them The POST OFFICE
and NEWSPAPER OFFICE

Fire broke out in vacant build
ing in the village of Cottonwood
Lake Monday morning and with
inadequate fighting apparatus the
village was soon at the mercy of
the flames.
As the town is without telephone
connections with this city reports
as to the extent of the disaster and
the exact amount of damage done
is difficult to obtain.
Among the buildings destroyed
were the post Office, the Office of
the Cottonwood Mixer, the Ander-
son company store, the drug store
and other buildings.
The latest reports obtainable
were that the fire was under con-
troll but as to the amount of dam-
age done no estimate is obtainable.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1911-09-21

''mess'' where miners get good
meals at 25 tents each.
The government provides bar
racks rent free, the miners pro-
viding their own bedding only.
The government provides good
cottages for married men at $40 a
month.
In spite of this system, govern
ment mined coal costs the govern
ment but $1.5O. The mine runs
only four months of the year
during the crop growing season.
The young engineers of the re-
clamation service of the interior
department., who are running the
mine, tell me they could clip an
other quarter off the cost per tor
if they operated all the year arouno
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1911-09-21
LISTEMANN'S
IN JOINT RECITAL
FAMOUS MUSICAL PEOPLE HERE IN
CONNECTION With LECTURE
COURSE OCTOBER 9Th

On account of an open date that
had to be filled between Grand
Forks and Havre the Civic League
lecture course committee have had
the good fortune to secure Virginia
Listemann, Soprano, in joint re-
cital with Bernhard Listermann,
violinist and Theodore Sturkow-
Ryder, pianiste for the evening Of
October 6.
This comes as special piece of
good luck to Williston music lov-
ers and patrons of the Civic League
lecture course and adds much to
the already high class program.
Virginia Listermann has Ian in
ternational reputation as a soloist
which fame as a musical celebrity
is shared with her father Bernhard
Listermann who was formerly con-
cert master with the Thomas
Orchestra of Chicago. Theodore
Sturkow-Ryder as a pianist has a
national reputation and is widely
known in concert and recital work.
This number comes as an extra
number strengthening the course
and making 1t five hunters instead
of four. No raise has been made
in the price and season tickets will
be sold at the same price as before
with free reservations.