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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-10-29

Mr.. Barret. Mr.. Elliott Woods, Superin-
tendent f the I. S. Capitol, will show
the last word in the movies Of the Pan
III Canal. the pictures having been talk
ell under the intimate personal direction
of Col. GOethals.
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-13
Militia Plumbers Houses
Shoots and Tortures Miners

The lawless tactics of the militia
include everything from bold rob
berries of homes in the strike section
to intimidating strikers by the use of
bullets.
One of the most notorious pillaging
expeditions was that at Valdez Novem-
bcr 9. Militiamen broke into the home
OF Felippo Fetitto, smashed u trunk
ard stole 500
The same night four men entered
the home of Carmelo Prugate and
took revolver. They went back a
second time and stole $500 in bills. the
savings OF Prugate for several wears.
Prugate and his family are destitute.
Twelve soldiers then went to the
house of Sam Barranco and took
everything of value In the house.
A report of these robbcries was
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-13
Militia Makes Man
Dig Own Grave
Victim Of Fiendish Practical Joke
Faints and Falls in
the Hole

r. A. Evans writes the following ac-
count from Walsenburg to the Denver
Express OF how a striker was forced
by the militia to dig his own grave:
Andrew Colnar is the victim OF a
practical ioke-a horrible. ghastly.
nondish joke-a jest that would have
dis tcdited Spanish inquisitors or a
band of Wild Indians on the war path.
colnar is Croatian. forty-eight
years old. For is years he has been
a coal miner in Colorado. He is a
naturalized citizen. and now. with
thousands Of other miners. he is on
strike for the constitutional rights all
American citizens are supposed to on.
Joy.
Wednesday Colnar told me how the
state soldiers arrested him. threw him
into dark and filthy Jail. and then
set him to digging his own grave
while they stood about and taunted
him and howled with laughter Mt his
suffering. or course the militiamen
didn't intend to shoot Colnar They
were Just having n little fun with
him. and when he fell insensible with
terror they released him In n hurry.
Since the strike started have
been taking care of ranch near
Main, seven miles south of Walsen.
burg. | am married and have four
little daughters. all less than seven
years old.
"On Friday. Nov. IS. was rabbit
hunting near my home when n bunch
of soldiers arrested me. | had writ.
ten letter to n strike breaker in the
c. +. 4 !. company's Midway mine.
inviting him to join the union, and
somehow the soldiers got hold OF the
letter. That's why they wanted me.
They took me to the military camp
at Lester. The little Jail was already
full. so they tied my hands behind me
and set soldier to watch me In n
house. The next Saturday
they put me in the jail. 1t was Just a
dark. damp cellar. and there were
crawling things there 1 was glad Sun.
day morning when they took me out.
Captain Drake. in charge of the
soldiers at Rouse, had questioned me
and ordered me held. He was the only
one knew by name.
when | get out into the sunlight
/ saw that one of the soldiers had
marked off a piece of ground, six feet
long and thirty inches wide. They
gave me pick and shovel and or.
Continued on Page %
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-13

made to Governor Ammons. who sent
his secretary to investigate. In con-
trast to the statements of the COVER
nor that he is trying to be fair. it is
interesting to know that although af-
fidavits of these robberies by the sol
diers.' recruited among the barrel
house buns of Denver. nothing has
beon done, These men are still serv-
ing in the southern fields as soldiers
in the state militia.
Strikers Wantonly Shot.
Another cold blooded attempt to
murder was perperated by the sol
diers November IL. George Prescott
and George Scanconi attempted to
board n train at Forbes for Trinidad.
The soldiers shot at the striking min
ers several times, one of the shots
Continued on Page -
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-13
Uncle Sam Operates
Coal Mines at Profit

In mining Ignite coal for the Willis
ton North Dakota) reclamation prof.
ect, the government has successfully
demonstrated its ability to handle min
ing operations by producing coal at a
cost below that of private operators
and also paying better wages to min
ers Expert coal miners. and practi-
cnlly all the men employed by the gov
ernment are skilled and receive from
81 TO IS per day. working on tonnage.
basis. This is In marked contrast with
the average wage of 80 n day for coal
miners In addition to better wages.
the government maintained far supe-
rior conditions for It's miners They
have shower baths. private lockers.
bunk rooms for single men. and res
taurant where the miners can obtain
meals at 25 cents each. The miners
are well satisfied. and jobs Mt the gov
ernment mines are much sought after.
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-13
Chase Was Member
Of Peabody's Soldiery

General Chase. who is now adding
TO his infamous record as tyrant,
was a brigadier general under Pea
body during the Cripple Greek war.
when Sherman Bell as adjutant gen.
.eral of Colorado. titled The bullpens
with miners. He was also member
of the bilitarv board that saddled
s,.50o.00o Indebtedness upon the peo-
pic and voted TO allow bills for high
priced wine purchased by military Of
ficers for the demimonde OF Denver
and other cities. This is the character
of man placed in command of state
troops by Governors Ammons and
who is now acting the czar part in the
southern Colorado coal strike. Chase.
Peabody. Bell and Ammons comprise
a quartet that gives Colorado Ill re-
pute throughout the civilized world.
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-13
SOLDIERS ARE ScABBING ON
COURTS-Mother Jones.

The soldiers are now scabbine
on the courts
1t is Mother Jones, of course,
who hits off the situation in this
epigram. when she refers to the
military tribunal which is putting
its victims through the third de
gree. Its sessions are held behind
locked doors. Only the press
agents for the operators are al
lowed to know any of the facts and
to send out to the public their dis
tcrted and poisoned accounts of
its operations.
Perhaps even the judges who
have in the past been the servile
tools of the operators may learn
4 lesson from Mother Jones tip on
the insecurity of their jobs. The
scabs in uniforms are after them
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-13

list of the known victims of this tyran
ny. They may be more, for It is ac-
countable to no one and gives out no
lists
These have suffered from this ma
chine of tyranny:
E. L. Doyle. secre,ary-treasurer Dis
trict 10.
Robert uhlich. president Trinidad To-
cal.
Mike Livoda, national organizer.
Louis Tikas. district organizer.
Adolph Germer. national organizer.
Eugene McGraw. national organizer
Mrs. Adolph Germer.
Tom Barrott, doorkeeper Trinidad To-
cal.
Secretary Jones. Aguilar local.
President CornaIl of local near Trim
idad
James vIskaboris. known as Jim
the Creek
Three Richards brothers. La Vets.
Louis zachaneiii. Trinidad.
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-13

Tolerated WHeFe government WAS hot
conducted by corporations, but Bell
with all his despicable actions never
imported smallpox.
Chase Defies Ammons.
That Chase has set himself up as a
car is shown by his attitude on the
strikebreaker question While Cover
nor Ammons sits at the statehouse Civ
ing out daily interviews on how he will
not tolerate the importation of strike
breakers. Gar Chase details soldiers
to meet the imported scabs and escort
them into the mines. A railroad man
is responsible for the statement that
scabs are recruited among the barrel
house buns of Denver, taken south
and then met by the militia. Escorted
by the militia these strikebreakers are
taken to the mines.
The history of the Importation of
lstrikebreakers and smallpox from
Mexico is unique
The operators and John Cbeing
members of the same club, they call
him john were sitting at feast in
the Columbia hotel in Trinidad. 1t
was the fourth party they had treated
/.
merry. The representative of the Rot
ten Mountain Fuel Company was cele-
brating the fact that the Big Three"
had MIXED the poor innocent public OF
$500 in excess coal charges for the
.fifty-ninth day,
Great Idea, John
Great stuff, the way you are putting
it over Elias said the Rotten Noun
tain representative No one but an
oculist could think of meeting those
Istrikebreakers at the depot, dressing
them in soldiers uniforms and march
ing them up the canon into the mines
You know, boys, John calls the op-
orators, boys) friends is friends and
amt the kind of fellow that would ride
your banquets day and night without
showin' my appreciation. The only
thing that's worrying me is where are
We going to get more scabs from"
why not try Old Mexico says the
Rotten Mountain representative.
Big Eats for John.
Great idea" says John. with his eye
SScihS MANY anu poultSOuS odnQUetS
and more automobile rides in the fu-
ture. Whereupon the three buccaneers
and their man Friday sometimes they
call John. Friday set out 10 get strike
breakers from Old Mexico.
The ssrikebreakers came: they saw:
they refused to work. "Well,'' says
John. Il should worry. l seen my duty
and done it. But with these Mexi-
cans came an unlimited person called
smallpox. 1t came; it saw the militia;
it got busy and today the military
camps in the southern fields are suf-
fering with an epidemic OF smallpox
all because of the desire OF lickspittle
Chase to win the favor of the coal OPP
orators OF Colorado by importing
strikebreakers.
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-13
The United Mine Workers
of America
WHAT 1T Is-wHAT IT DOES.

The United Mine Workers of America is the
largest trade union in the world, having ap-
proximately 100000 members.
1t is recognized by practically all the leading
coal operators of the United States.
Its aim is to promote the general welfare of
the coal miner
1t has made life safer in the mines The
death rate in unorganized mines is three times
greater than in union mines.
1t does not believe in strikes except as last
resort when arbitration or conference is
fused.
1t has been the greatest power in the country
in preventing strikes in the coal mines Wyo-
ming, for instance, has had no strike since it
became organized. The coal miners and oper-
ators deal in peace and harmony.
If the Wyoming operators can deal in peace
with their men, what prevents the Colorado
operators from doing the same?
Ask the operators to answer this.
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-13

are charged with the duty of prose
cutting those who break the laws. but
these officials have been supplanted by
a military tribunal which exercises
despotic powers and robs those seized
by the soldiers OF every safeguard of
the law.
This military body established by
General Chase proceeds TO try the
union members. although some faint eff
fort has been made to shield Its ille-
gal character by a declaration that IL
~ no, a court. but a board of inquiry.
II is court for those who face II and
meet its injustice and its tyranny.
Prisoners Cruelty Treated
is cruel in the extreme. They are held
in solitary confinement In the jails AT
Trinidad and walsenburg. fed on the
poorest OF food. denied any right TO see
friends or lawyers or even TO talk
among themselves.
The soldier guards wake them as
often as they fall asleep. and work
every infamy OF the notorious Third
Degree" in the hope that with courage
or minds broken they may give even
fake confessions" In order to escape
the toTtures OF their prisons and the
brutality Of their keepers.
The treatment Of Andrew Colnar IS
typical OF the treatment Of these milf
tary prisoners Coluar was taken out
at night. given a spade, and ordered TO
dig his own grave. He was told that he
was TO be shot the next morning unless
he signed a confession OF things which
this military court wanted to bring
before the public with some show OF
authority. Colnar dug his own grave.
But he kept his manhood and told only
the truth.
Victims Bear Truth.
The horrors of these military jails
will not be known until some power OF
Justice releases the men who are now
being subjected TO its tortures. The
friends. families and attorneys for the
union are kept IN ignorance of their
treatment and only when fear forces
these czars in uniform to release a
victim does any part OF the truth be-
come known.
The result of these inquiries is to
show the purpose and intent of these
minions OF Car Chase. The list OF
those seized is confined TO union men.
They take the men who have charge
OF camps in order to hamper the peace
ful conduct of the strike. They seek
TO terrorize by arresting and failing
those who are needed by the striking
miners to advise and counsel.
Operators Murderers Protected.
The murders of strikers by the muir
derous guards have beeen untouched
by this tribunal. Their paid murderers
in many instances now wear the uni
form OF the soldiers. 1t is n court"
for purposes OF oppression and tyran
ny. as may be seen by the appended
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-13
Coal Operators
Tell More Lies
Statement That They Are Only
1900 Men Short Absurd
Says Lawson

No more insolent attempt to insult
the intelligence of Colorado citizens
has been made by the operators than
the statement to the effect that al
though they were .1.300 men short
they had produced "1,O00.000" tons of
coal in November.
81 am not surprised that the peo-
pie of Colorado are incensed at the
position taken by the coal operators
in the present coal strike. said John
r. Lawson. Every statement made by
the operators to influence public opin-
ion has been proven false. The history
oil the strike is continued story of
lies told to win public favor.
Operators Repudiated.
"One of the greatest repudiations
OF the operators was the referendum
vote OF the miners, by which they
turned down the operators proposi-
tion for settlement submitted
through Governor Ammons. When the
strike was called the operators said
it was done by paid agitators. that the
miners were perfectly satisfied and
would not leave their work. When the
strike call became effective 1900
men. or 95 per cent of the miners, quit
work Then the operators said that If
the militia was placed in the field Go
per cent of the men would return to
work. Not man returned to work.
Then the operators came out with
a statement attempting to show that
the coal miners in Colorado averaged
from 81 to $3.50 per day. We have al
ready proven conclusively that this is
deliberate misrepresentation OF facts
and that miner cannot earn more
than Se.lO for an eight-hour day or
81 SIS for n ten-hour day.
Statements Absurd.
''lf the operators statement that
they are only 1900 men short in their
mines ut this time. could be true. the
strike has certainly been Il very tor
tunate thing for them. 1t is a we'll
known fact that the working force In
the coal mines of Colorado has been
short from two to three thousand men
for several years. The statement of
the operators would therefore indicate
that the strike had increased their
working force from 700 to 100 men.
rhe operators further say that their
output for last month was 100000
tons. This statement is SO absurd that
the effort to deceive the public must
be apparent"
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-13
Why Did They
Rob You?

BY FRANK j. HAYES.
If the statement of the operators that there
are still large stocks of coal in the hands OF
dealers, placed there Immediately prior to the
strike, - is true, why was it necessary to raise
the price of coal S1.75 ton?
There approximately 80, ,183 tons OF coal
used by Colorado citizens every day in the year
This means that the operators have, without
any cause whatsoever been forcing the people
of Colorado to pay S52 rs as daily excess
tribute during the past two months.
The purpose of the operators in raising the
price Immediately after the strike began and
lowering it at this time is very evident. They
thought they saw chance to influence the peo-
pie of the state against the strikers by delib
erately misrepresenting facts and claiming that
they were forced to raise the price 81 rs per ton
on account of a shortage caused by the strike.
For two months they told the people of Colo
RADIO this story, and every day in these two
months the coal operators paid demurrage
charges all over the state on thousands of tons
of coal that could not be moved. After admit
ting in their signed statement that it was not
owing to shortage that the price of coal was
raised S1.75 ton, the coal operators now an
nounce reduction of S1.75 ton, hoping to Gre
ate the impression that the strike is broken and
that the amount of coal being mined is so near
the normal tonnage that they can sell coal at a
normal price.
clever enough am afraid TO further insult the
to them why they should pay excess charge
of S52 821 % per day for two months to allow
the coal operators to show this cleverness.
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-13
Chase Imports Smallpox
and Strike Breakers
In Coal Strike Zone
Military Gar in Effort to Please Operators by
Allowing Mexican Scabs to Enter Field
Scourges Militia Camps With
Dread Disease

fields General John Chase has precedent
which
by tool throttle the of
tyranncaly oppressed labor
the Cripple Greek made
establish himself military despot, but h did
things that would be
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-13
Military Court Robs
Miners Of Every Right
Under the Constitution
Victims Of Uniformed Tyranny Held in Solitary
Confinement and Subjected to Torture and
Brutalities Of Infamous Third Degree.
Operators Murderers Protected

suspended southern
the soldiers of them recruits from the
the imported and
murtie of the Baldwin, Feltz
Martial day
of that strike be broken.
Trinidad officials
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-10-30
FIRST STATE BANK

REPORT Of the CONDITION OF the
FIRST STATE BANK
at Surrey, in the State Of North Dakota at
the close OF business. October slst, 1913:
Z, RESOURCES
Loans and discounts ............... $50, 734 06
SOyefdrafts secured and unsecured. 40l.79
Warrants, stocks, tax certificates.
ol0lms. 0tc.. l,4lA.oV
Banking house. furniture and TX -. :.
lures ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. EN0. 10
Other real estate ;. .......... $4,000
Duo from other banks..... $4,736.84
Checks and other cash
ca assn 49,: s s!1s5
Total. s74o4s.55
Capital stock paid in . 49, 80. 100000
Surplus fund Observation-Disclosures. 100000
taxes paid 1,435.75
Individual deposits sub
r| |9ss to e. a9Hsa ii dep: s'Ss0's'
Cashiers checks o ;1ist;iidd ~
ing ............ Sl7e5 1882 so
Total s74.o4s.55
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA 60.
T. W.. S.. Young, Cashier Of the above
named bank. do solemnly sw ear that the above
statement is true, to the best II my knowl'
W.. 8. YOUNG, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th
fsr.,1 H. E. ByosuM.
tnAAAj Notary Public,
Ny commission expires Feb 7th. 1917.
CoRRDCT-Attest:
B. =. f sosS,
Directors.
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NOTICE or 1xP11AT1oN or TIM
or 11O1lRPxIO0.
omcs Of Comfy Auditor.

Once Of County Auditor.
State Of North Dakota. County Of Ward.
ss Minot, N. D., October oath. 1913.
To J. Elizabeth Phillips. Philadelphia.
Penn.
the person in whose name certain Real
Estate situate in Ward County. North
Dakota, and hereinafter described now
aeoears Of record IN the ONCE Of the
which said Real Estate was assessed in
the year 1907 as follows:
Lot II in Block 40, Brooklyn Addition
to the City of Minot, Ward County. N.
said Real Estate being asses sed in
1907 to ]. Elizabeth Phillips.
You are hereby notified that said
az provided by law, at the annual sale of
iinquent, after advertisement thereof, as
provided by law, which sale was made
At the Auditors office at the Court
Honse II the CITY o Of MnGt County
1st day of December, 1908, and the
amount of the delinquent tax due upon
the property at the date Of sale was
Three and o3-100 Dollars;
including penalties, costs and interest
to make which amount the said proper
ty was then and there sold as provided
by law for
Three and O3-1OO Dollars
and a certificate Of said sale was issu-
hand and seal Of the Auditor of said
Ward County, and you are further noti-
fed that the owner and holder of the
Certificate so issued has presented the
same to the undersigned as Auditor of
said County. and demanded a deed for
said property as provided by law; and
said Certificate being and remaining un-
redeemed and there being
Sixty Nine and 6S-1O0 Dollars
due and unpaid thereon including subse-
4uent taxes for the years 1908
penalties and interest, and there
appearing no legal objection why q tax
deed should not be issued as demanded
You are therefore notified that
Sixty Nine and 6S-1OO Dollars
exclusive of accruing costs and interest
is necessary to redeem said property
from said sale, and that unless the said
amount interest and costs of this pro-
seeding are paid on or within 80 days af-
ter the service of this notice upon you
tax deed will be issued therefor as pro-
vided by law.
Period Of redemption expires ninety
days after the service of this notice.
Given under my hand and official seal
this oath day Of October, 1913.
l.. j. THOMPSON.
Auditor of Ward County,
10-3O-t3 North Dakota.
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The Cairo bulletin., 1913-05-14
DR.. FRIEDMANN'S
CURE is CALLED
GIGANTIC Fraud
Ell q
University of Wisconsin Professor
Says German Broke Prom
Uses to the U. s.

=
Madison, Wis. May i3.--Dr. M. T..
Ravenel, head of the State Hygenic
Laboratory, professor OF bacteriology
, at the University of Wisconsin and a
director OF the National Association
for the Prevention Of tuberculosis,
who returned today from Washing
ton, where he observed the patients
receiving the Friedman cure, to-
night denounced the remedy as the
most gigantic and preposterous
fraud of a generation"
He declared the experimental
cases had shown practically no re-
suits. He charged that friedman
has broken his promise to the United
States government. wherein he en-
gagged to furnish the government
quantity OF the serum for expert
mental purposes; that all the governs
ment has been able to get is one
drop, which the doctors cultivated
themselves, and that friedman alb
solutely ignores government letters
sent to him.
DR.. Ravenel claims that a news
paper syndicate received 81 600 zoe
for exploiting the cure and that DR..
Friedman had charged exorbitant
fees for administering the serum,
several ranging from $1,000 to s5.-
geo.