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The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1911, 1911-02-24
FINDS SNUFF IS DRUGGED
DR.. Abbott of State U. Makes Start.
ling Discovery in Analisys of
Snuff.

Grand Forks, n. D., Feb. l7.-For the
first time, and after patient and UNI
successful efforts by many chemists, it
has just been established by official
authority that snuff, of which mil
lions of pounds are chewed annually,
is drugged with cocaine. The expert
mcnts which led to the separation Of
the drug have just been completed by
DR.. A. &. Abbott, head of the chemistry
department of the University of North
Dakota.
Public attention was recently called
by DR.. Ladd of the A. c., to the dan
gerous character of the snuff chewing
habit and it's growth especially among
laboring men and village boys. DR..
Ladd stated in his address at Grand
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1911, 1911-02-24


Forks, some weeks ago, and repeated
the statement in bulletin, that the
habit was growing so rapidly e to be-
alarming and that the unfortunate fea-
ture of the situation was that medical
men were generally convinced that to.
bacco in this form is drugged with some
no one had yet succeeded in separating
the drug from the vehicle in which it
is carried, and that the complications
are such that it is regarded as practic-
ally impossible to perform the various
necessary operations incident to this
analisys without losing the alkaloid in
the process. For this reason is has
bee impossible, under existing laws, to
prevent the distribution of snuft, and
this distribution has gone on freely,
through the mails and through the var
ious channels of trade.
Early in.thsspresfeaats ;sasap % fssthc
Legislature Senator LaMoure intro
duced bill prohibiting the sale of
in North Dakota. At the request of
senate committee having this bill in
charge, DR.. Abbott, of the university
chemistry department, was requested
OF analyze sample of snuff, and to
use his best effort to ascertain if in re-
ality it did contain cocaine or any sim
liar poison. DIR. Abbott agreed to use
every effort, but he warned the commit
tee that the process might require con-
siderable time, and he could make no
confident prediction of success. Dis.
carding the methods which had pre-
viouslv been unsuccessful, he devised a
method entirely new, so far as he
knows, and he was rewarded by finding
as result of his analysis, cocaine ac
tually present in appreciable quantities
and to be able to verify his results by
all the tests that are usually applied,
including those of physiological ma
ture In the latter he found the muse
ular paralysis which is one Of the typ.
cal results of the use of this drug, and
while he is not at this time giving any
public description of the method used
in his analysis, he announces without
any qualification that the snuff analyz-
ed does contain cocaine in sufficinet
quantities to be identified and separat-
habit, and sufficient to exert highly
injurious influence on the system of the
snuff chewer.
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1911, 1911-02-24
"WITHOUT A PAUPER''
North Dakota's Governor 50 Charac
terizes the State-Some of Its
Possibilities,

Governor John Burke tells of the ag-
ricultural possibilities Of North Dakota
when he says:
''We are just beginning to realize
that the soil is our greatest resource.
Until recently it was of little value.
Buyers were few for the reason that it
was not necessary to purchase. Any
one conld acquire title to l6G acres Of
land by fling on it and living nit for
five years. or living on it for fourteen
months mad paying $1.25 an acre.
''The time is near at hand when the
government will have no more aericul-
tural lands. 1t is now opening Indian
reservations to supply the great de-
mand, an din little while all the gov
eminent lands Of the United States will
be occupied. We cannot add to the sup
ply, but on the contrary we are losing
thousands Of acres every year from, the
With the government land gone, and
our population steadily and rapidly in
creasing, it is apparent that. while our
exports have helped to feed the hun.
cry in every land, we can look ,uto the
future and see our every acre taxed to
sustain our own people. The soil is
our greatest resource, for upon its pro-
auctions all animal life depends. With
the increase in population there must
necessarily be an increase in produc-
Who can estimate the future value of
our rich agricultural North Dakota
lands, Of which we have 20,000,000
acres, only little over half CT which
is now under cultivation9 Who can
estimate the untold riches their full
development and culture will bring to
the state?
"We have just begun to develop. a
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1911, 1911-02-24
ABBELSON HAS CONFESSED
TO AWFUL MURDER
Kramer Man Killed His Neighbor and
Left Body on Prairie.

Kramer, N. D., Feb. 17.-william
Abbelson, the finder of the body of
F. NJ. Schroeder who was murdered
last Saturday, last night confessed II
the murder. He has been taken to Up
ham, N. D., as witness and kept en-
tirely ignorant Of the evidence which
was being collected to establish his
guilt. He was suspected from the mo-
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1911, 1911-02-24
BLOODY MULE WRONG
CLUE IN THIS CASE

Kennett, Cal, Feb. 16.-That
Louis Gay, foreman Of the Nam
moth mine, hads beent murdered,
was assumed by the citizens Of
kennett when his saddle mule,
covered with blood, ran riderless
into town fast night. Gay was
found early today unconscious
on a mountain roau with bull
let wound in his hip. When re-
vived he explained that re-
volver in his hip pocket had
been discharged accidentally.
He will recover.
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1911, 1911-02-24

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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21
A GRAFTER'S SONG.
(By Smith,


l am CRATER. I'd have you know.
I do Grating to make a big show.
graft in the morling, and I graft at
night. I graft everything that comes
in sight. graft and I graft and I
steal. l have grated enough to buy
an automobile. 1 have grated land
"a CRATER 1 stand. I have grated
the Mayor and his band. I am simp-
ly 4 Grating tool. L learned my
grating at the Grating school. 1t is
kept by the City and County too. If
You want to be CRATER they will
learn you. too Six days I graft and
hoodo all l can. The seventh day I
sit with the Book of Mystery in my
hand, and view the Grafters of this
land. We have the Chamber of Com
merce Grafters of the C. o. G. I un-
derstand, who graft the merchants OF
this land. who think it is no harm to
steal-just remember their last land
deal
We graft from near and far we
graft the mem bers of the Bar and not
content with grating them we tried
| to cast the gra fling pills. but il
wouldn't work with Uncle Phil.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21
HE'LL SMASH
S7RLRE
PRESIDENT SAYS THAT UNION
MEN WILL BE PROSECUTED
UNDER TIE SHERMAN
ANTITRUST LAW.

President Taft has assured Wall
street magnates that the United
States government will prosecute un.
der the Sherman antitrust law union
| men who, strike on the Hartman sys-
TEN, according to startling revela-
tlons made in San Francisco and re-
ceiVed here by telegram.
AID TO HARTMAN LINES
This assurance is what is causing
the Hartman lines to force strike
OF their shop employees by refusing to
recognize the system federation form
of organization.
Word to this effect was carried to
the delegates of the system fedora
tion all over the Hartman lines in
the west, who are in session in San
Francisco
}. w. Kline, president of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Black
smiths and Helpers; j. A. Franklin,
president of the Boilerma1ers and
Iron Shipbuilders; NJ. F. Ryan of the
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, and
Vice President Buckalew of the In
ternational Association Of Machinists
are in San Francisco at the confer
ence of the delegates.
SEES SECRET TELEGRAM.
The charge that Taft has assured
Wall street magnates that he will in
woke the Sherman law against strik-
ing railroad shop employees was made
by President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor in a
speech in San Francisco. He assert
ed that he had seen secret tele-
gram in which such assurance was
given.
Such action as that alleged to have
been taken by President TAFT is in
line with his actions while a federal
judge in the strike of the American
Railway union. In that strike he in
voked the Injunction against the
strikers, sending many of them to
Jail
Delegates in San Francisco are in
censed over the Information and as
sert that the right to strike is to be
taken away from labor
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21
WHOLESALE HOUSES REFUSE TO
GIVE EMPLOYEES HALF HOLI-
DAY SATURDAY..

The two wholesale firms, Ruffne1
it seems are extremely unfair with
their employees in depriving them
of the Saturday half-holiday, which
other wholesale houses have volun-
tarily given their employees. 1t will
be remembered too, that both these
firms took an active interest in the
Labor Day parade, but We venture
it was more for advertising purpose,
than ANYTHING else and not because
they loved the horny-handed sons OF
toll so dearly.
The firm Of Ruffner Eros, accord
ing to r. G. Dunn & Co. is worth
more than one million dollars. All
this stupendous fortune has been
wrung from the brow of honest toll
and yet after the accumulation of
this vast amount of wealth, while
those whose labor brought it forth,
stand in the direct need of things
their labor cannot give. they do not
understand why these common work
ing men should have a little time
each week to spend with their wives
and babies.
Some of these faithful workers
have been in the service of this firm
FOR fifteen or twenty yearS-havc
been piling up treasures these many
weary days for their masters. AIld
having reached the afternoon os life
! with temples frosted with the chill
| Of approaching night. they find thei,
condition has no; changed materially
II is work. work, work, without any
time for culture or seif-im prove
| lllent.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21
IMPORTANT MEETING
Local Charleston will
meet at COZ Virginia st.
Sunday, Sept. "a at 3
P. M. All members are
requested to be present.
Important business de-
mands immediate atten-
ton.
c. H. BOSWELL, Sec.
MARK ON PALLIATIVES

At the time and quite apart from
the general servitude involved in the
wages swstem, the working class
ought not to elaggerate to them,
selves the ultimate working of those
everyday struggles. They ought
not to forget that they are fighting
with effects; but not with the cause of
these effects that they are applying
palliatives, not curing the malady.
They therefore ought not to be ex-
clusively absorbed in these unavoid-
able guerilla fights incessently
springing up from the ever increas-
ing encroachments Of capital or
changes OF the market. They ought
to understand that, with all the
miseries it imposes on them, the
present system simultaneously en-
senders the material conditions and
social reforms necessary for an eco
nomic reconstruction of society. In
stead Of the conservative motto: "A
fair days work FOR q fair days wage
they ought to inscribe on their ban
ners the revolutionary watchword:
Abolish the wages system karl
Marx in 1865.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21
THE BOY SCOUT "AIAsTEIs,

A Des Moines dispatch says that
the boy scouts of that city are to
be used to break up a strike of boot
blacks w. d. Olney, scoutmaster
OF the U. S. Grant Troop of Boy
Scouts of the Methodist Church OF
Des Moines, is uTcced as saying: 5@t5,
The strike is an outrage that may
be prevented or reduced to a mini
mum by the timely interference OF
the Boy Scouts, who are eager to
demonstrate their practical value to
the community. 1 have been prom
ised by many business men that the
boys would be furnished with tenn
porary stands free from rental until
the shoeshining strike could be
broken"
Such is the mental makeup of tho
average boy scout "mastcr.'' The
man who will array himself in a
khaki uniform in intimation of an
army officer and put a lot of small
Loys through military nlaneuvers is
generally of too poor mental calibre
to do anything but ape the attidute
OF big business men towards the
working people. For downright
'sissyness'' look among the struttinc
uniformed monkeys that head the
boy scout troops. 1t is the last
place in the world to look for a
"a mans man." Among such serve
ycur-master-well style of literature
created by Ebert Hubbard finds
ready readers.
Those poor bootblacks in Des
Moines want more money for their
work. The non-compos-mentis per-
son at the head of the nursery brl-
gade finds it an excellent opportun-
ity to show his masters how we'll
they may depend upon him. He
little knows with what Contem pt
even they look upon him. If those
proletarians of the street do not
send the Numbered boy scouts scoot-
ing home to their mammas with
soiled linen, then boys will not be
boys any longer.-EX.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21

though surrounded by a lot of Mox
MichPs, Henrietta Hills and other
harlots, which added nothing to his
credit. Hamon manifested great and
senseless dislike for Jews and treated
them unjustly; and by insinuation.
and system of discrimination and
hattery, turned King Ahnsuerus
against them, just as Adulterous
caused Mayor Holley to turn on his
friends. Mordecai-the Jew, whom
Hamon especially hated, was a mod
est, faithful, retiring getleman, as
most Jews are, true as steel ana
brave enough to refuse to st.ulify him.
self enough to bow in adulation TO
Hamon, who GULL like, hated him the
more because of his manly indepe-d-
ence. Hamon, like Bedell and Ross,
so worked on the credulity of the
King, that he was induced to issue
decree for the humiliation of the
Jews-though they had committed II:
crimes--the King being a fool in This
respect-just like Holley. The only ex-
tenuation could be offered in defense
CT the King, is that he had been hav-
ing a lot of trouble with Queen Vashti
his wife, who was suffragette-
believed in 'Woman's Rights and
the supremacy of the petticoat She
gave o'clock teas to her lady friends,
wine bibled, rushed the growler and
CONTINUED on Page TwO)
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21
DIR. S. NJ. WILSON
Holds an Enthusiastic Meeting at
M;armct

DR.. S. M. Wilson held a rousing So
cialist meeting at Marmet some days
ago. The meeting was presided over
by Ben Morris. Secretary of the
United Mine Workers of America, Dis
trict No. II. Those present say this
was the largest crowd that ever turn
ed out to hear political speech in
Marmet. Comrade Wilson made a
clear and able speech that was we'll
received by the audience. Marmet
Will give an ovcrwhe Ginning Socialist
majority in the next election Com
rade Wilson is keeping things hot in
the upper end of Kanawha County
and the lower end of Fayette Keep
the good work up Kanawha and
Fayette will both be ours in the next
election. Then gooy-bye Guard Sys-
tenn on New River and Cabin Creek
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21
THE HANGING
OF HAMON1
By Es-City Official
BY Ex-City Official

Hamon, was a sleek, oily, unctuous.
smiling, sycophantish hypocrite; full
OF ruirks and Discrimination. ALWAYS
bowling in adulational subserviency
10 his superiors, and, like all marrow
mined tyrants, he treated harshly and
unjustly, those unfortunately placed
under him. Our impression is, that
he was self conscious and i'll at ease
in the presence of gentlemen-iust
as is Adultcrous j. GULL.
Adultcrous was in the lobby of the
Hotel Ruffncr last Sabbath evening
week ago. there to meet the Big
Boss. and not being used to the So
cicty of refined people, he made q
pliFul spectacle of himself; he acted
as though his feet were not mates.
and his hands were as large as Gin
cinnati canvass hams. Poor old de-
ceptivc Adulterous, you were the sub
jcct OF suprcmest pity. Hamon had
all the attributes essential, to have
made him an ideal Chief of Police
according to Jim Holley's conception.
II" was full of fattery and caiolery
and Sccretive enough to hide the mid
night cscapades of the king. He was
branier. more Intelligent man than
Adnltcrous: cleaner in person but
nearly as filthy in his methods of
cohHuctlng official business We in
fer from reading his history, that he
had marriage certificate, and was
mol cheek by jowl with prostitutes
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21

II YOU are a good union man why
not go one step farther and join the
Socialist party. The unions are TIE
economic organizations Of the work
ing class. The Socialist Party is their
political organization. One is as es-
sential as the other.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21

For stalling a sack of flour and two
cans of molasses, Charles Carver, Of
Circlesville. Ga. was given six months
in the work house. He explained
that he had not been employed for
months and could have taken much
more. but wanted "only a little food
for the babies.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21

In Pittsburgh, Pa. Lizzie Margo,is,
10, who was compelled to work II
hours per day. ended her life by tax
i1lg poison. Il am just tired, read
the note she left behind
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21

Twenty thousand men have been
layed off by the Southern Pacific Rail-
road Company. means of re-
trenchment- Two thirds of the num-
ber have families and will be idle for
an indefinite period.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21

The Labor Argus is the best me-
dunn through which to reach the
working class. Give us your "Ad
and watch results.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21

While searching for work in Buff
alo. n. Y, Frank Sawyer. a teamster,
was arrested as vagrant and SEN
fenced to serve thirty days at hard
labor.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21

Out of work, and six orphaned chill
dren dependent on him. Flavius Red
dinston hanged himself at Tarboro.
~. u .:l=ss s..Zx 20 .aGs.sa
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21

Continued on Page Two.)
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22
INDICTED FOR MURDER.

Salina Bowling, the halfbreed girl of Douglas, was indicted at Ketchi- kan for murdering her mother, and her case will be transferred to Ju- neau. The girl is now in the feder- q! iail there, all the witnesses for the government appearing before the Ketchikan grand jury. It is prob able the girl will be allowed to plead guilty and later be sent to a reform school.
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22
THEY DO ALL THE SWINGING.

The Seattle commercial clubs are after the Alaska wildcatters. Anyone who could sting a Seattleite on Alas ka speculation could rob the sub treasury vaults in broad daylight The nearest Seattle ever came to paying a just price for an Alaska product was when Assay Office Clerk Adams managed to let the Alaska miners get away with $19 for every $20 worth of gold dust deposited. At that he was sent to prison for not grabbing it all.
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22
WANTS VACCINATION
 ORDER REVOKED
askans and Seattletes Greatly Aroused Over the At tempt of the Government to Create Scare that
 will Prove Detriment to the North

all   It learned the order the
  bearing
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22
oLD-TIsIER DEAD.

Josh Wilson. known to Ill old-tim- CTS as .Whiskers Wilson, who came to Alaska in 1886, died at the Sis ters' hospital in Juneau Wilson had for years been a sufferer from asth- ma, which was directly responsible for his death. ( The deceased was member of the 'S7 Pioneers. and also { veteran of the civil war.
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22

Read the Leader for the news.
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22
PRESIDENTS PEI BILL
 PASSES
 

Washington, April 22.-President Taft's Canadian reciprocity bilr today passed the House. the vote being 265 in favor and S9 against. The meas ure also requests tho. tho president secure additional reciprocity relations with Canada.
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22
MURDERED MAN FUR
 4O CENTS

Seattle, April 22.-Four men rid held up by two bandits They were all gagged and one of them murder ed but he only had 40 cents to re- ward the assassins for their crime.
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22
TEST|F|ES OFFICE
 WAS BOUGHT

Springfield, Ill.,, April 2l-Form- CT Senator Hopkins and others testi- fed before the investigating commit tee that money was paid to secure the election of Senator Lorimer.
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22
$20,000
 |SSTOLEN
 BY BANDITS

Chicago, April 22.-This after noon while an express wagon wac go ing from the station to the office, a trunk containing S2O,O00 worth of gold watches was stolen.
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22
FOREIGN GIRLS
 VICTIMS

Indianapolis, April 22.z-Grace Alb bolt in an address before a conven- ton of the Young Women's Chris tian Association, declared that immi- grant girls were the prey of white slaves.
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22
Guggenheim's New Mining Expert

gogt
  fol dun oonslfor
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22

Secretary of the Interior Fisher may visit the coal towns of Alaska this season.
 John w Troy is making a fine publication out of the Alaska-Yukon Magazine. published at Seattle.
 Job work at the Leader. office.
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22
ENGINEERS
 THREATEN
 ID STRIKE

Chicago, April 22.-The engineers and firemen employed on twenty-four western railroads, threaten to strike on account of a dispute over the wage scale.
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22

San Francisco wholesale merch-
 ants want a line of steamers from
 that port to southeast and western Alaska before the Panama exposi- It;on opens. .
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22

Professor Parish. of Seattle. is to be the new head of the Juneau pub He school.
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22

It is estimated it will cost $500, ,08O to provide the proper number of lighting houses and beacons in Alas ka.
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22

It is none too early to begin to talk base ball.
The Chitina leader., 1911-04-22
ATTEMPT TO TIE
 UP COAL LANDS
the Lie is Promptly Nailed, Notwithstanding Which Fact Delegate Wickersham Immediately Trumps
 Up Another False Charge

Washington April 22A correspondent of the Washington Star sensational
  agitation  resur made absurdh
 
 
  fields titles
 
  plet hon prahnn Guggenheims purchased this coal outlet efamGar
   il
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-05-19

Every minute was precious, said the
man who wanted his letters written in
a hurry, yet he left building that
provided three public stenographers
and walked four blocks up the street
to another stenographer.
"She is no more efficient than those
other girls" he said, "but nobody will
get good work out of them today be-
cause two workmen were killed this
morning in the building next door. All
the men working In the new building
have gone home for the day; that is a
rule of the trades, and 1t might just
about as well be made a rule In the
neighboring Offices, for the clerks
who see and hear about the accident
are never fit for much the rest of the
day. There is no danger attached to
their Jobs, but the accident gives every
stenographer and typewriter in the
building case of nerves"