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Imperial Valley press., 1914-09-24
Fleet Is Ready to Strike.

New York, Sept. 23.-Two hundred
British warships lie in battle line off
Imperial Valley press., 1914-09-24
Favor Peace.

Los Angeles, Sept. 24.-City Off
Gals, various organizations and several
lands paraded the streets today in a
demonstration for European peace.
This was followed by a peace mass
meeting in Trinity auditorium.
Vote California Dry
Wireless to Close.
Washington, Sept. 24.-Secretary Of
the Navy Daniels has ordered the Sias-
consctt station of the Marconi Com
pany closed at noon tomorrow.
Vote California Dry
Desert Victim Still Missing-Up to
2 o'clock today no word had been re-
ceived from the searching parties who
are hunting for John Bowers, lost in
the 8andhills thirty miles east of Holt
vile. 1t is week today since the
aged man was lost.
Vote California Dry
Imperial Valley press., 1914-09-24

Paris, Sept. 24.-On official state
menr issued here this afternoon an
nounces that the French left wing
is making steady progress and that
Peronne has been occupied by the
French. Tn an attempt to drive off the
French, who are threatening his line
of communication, Won Kluk is MAX
ing sharp attack upon the French
forces at Peronne.
"On our left we have advanced il
the direction of Roye," says the state
ment, and the detachment that occu-
pied Peronne is maintaining itself
there, despite the sharp attack from
the enemy. Between the Disc and
Aisne the emmy continus to maintain
important forcs, which are solidly en-
trenched We have advanced slightly
northwest of Berry au Bac. On the
centc, there is no change. At Ar
gonne, on the heights of the Meuss,
the er emy continues its attacks with
particular violence.
"On our right there has been no no
table change in the region of Nancy
and The Vosges."
Imperial Valley press., 1914-09-24

= Slowly, but apparently with great
success, the allies have swung around
the west end of the great German
battle line, and last night they were
within seven miles of the railroad on
which the Germans depend for sup
plies and over which from 800 to 500
cars loaded with provisions and am
munition must come each day. Sur
passing all other battles in human
history in magnitude of operations.
there is no doubt that an entirely new
record of slaughter is being made.
This is the twelfth day of the battle,
and still the butchery goes on, the al
lies apparently having the advantage
of the situation so far as it has yet
developed.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-09-24

ran; RlXey, Mattlson and kllllfer.
Vote California Dry
Double Tragedy.
San Francisco, Sept. 24.-With four
bullets in her body and the lifeless
form of man lying near, Miss Lizette
Jumel was found dead today in her
apartment at the Occidental hotel. A
revolver with five chambers empty was
clutched in the mans hand. Letters
indicated he is F. Greenau, recently
from the Hotel Snow, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, Sept. PA man reg
istered as "F. Greenau" left the Snow
hotel last night for San Francisco aft
er receiving a telegram that apparent
ly greatly excited him. He had been
here month.
Vote California Dry
Home From Rome.
Boston, Sept. 24.-Cardinal Glib
bons, after attending the ceremonies
of the election of the Pope, arrived
home today on the liner Canopic.
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unions TO 0PENB|C !.
.'~- &:& n =. :.
COOPERATIVE STORE
Indianapolis Labor Meen' 10, 200
. ;. Strong, Purchase Large IS. 8. :.
Departmnet store. !. ,.'. &, :.

!, INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. :, 1.-The
first cooperative store in the United
States to be backed by combination
of members Of various unions was
purchased here this afternoon. .: .
!: The Marriott department store. on
one of the principal streets will be
closed at once for inventory and will
reopen the middle of next week un-
der the union management: Probably
10000 men and women, all identi-
fled with union labor hold stock m
the enterprise. -. -.
!. 1t was incorporated as the Union
Cooperative Store of Indianapo polls,
with, a capital of 5000, 900. This: is be-
lieved to be about one-third the pur-
chase price of the store. Stock is
preferred, drawing. 5 per cent inter
est. Only union. men can buy vot-
ing stock. and all are limited to five
shares Of $40 each. The store will
be managed by IL directors elected
by the stockholders. A unique fea-
ture is that the papers state the ad-
ditional T.. function Of publishing
newspaper and books.
The store will have a grocery de-
partment and will handle practically
all the staples in every line. 5.:%
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REPUBLICANS Talk
SPECIAL INTERESTS
i
Letter Sent From Estate Confer
ence Headquarters" Makes
Charges Against Eberhart.

The so-called ''RepubIican Confer
ence committee" headed by ]. F. Jac-
.obson Of Madison, is out with a cir
cular letter to the newspapers of the
state urging publicity for the Repub-
lican Conference to be held In Min
neapolis in March. The circular is
a startling indictment against the
Eberhart-Smith political machine,
and contains charges against the pres
ent regime at the state capitol that
Democrats have been slow to make.
It declares that the purpose Of the
conference will be to "agree upon a
candidate to make the run for gov
ernor against the special interests
organization now in control of the
Republican party of this state.'
1t further states that William E.
Lee, Samuel G. Iverson and James
A. Peterson, "all active anti machine
candidates for the Republican ponii-
nation for governor, have given the
movement favorable comment"
Now, if Governor Eberhart should
be nominated by the people in June,
we wonder what Mr.. Jacobson and
mis- associates will do during the CAM
paign. Will they support the gov
ernor after designating him as tho
candidate of the special interests:
We shall see what we shall sec.
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Wage Reduction Comes Without
3 Warning Saves ,$2o0. 900
q Year for Octopus.

q, s,NEW@sYORK,F Feb. q 27.-Salaries Of
United States Stores clerks have
been cut from ten to ,twnety- five per
cent through the: odaption of a uni
form scale just made affective.
The wage reduction will amount
to from s175,O0o to $2o,000a year,
which. Will recoup the trust for. the
extra dividend of one-half of one
per cent paid last year.
The new scale came without!
warning to, the clerks and more than
one hundred quit their jobs.
Most of the company's 700 stores
are in. the two-clerk class and do
about $500 a week business. Wages
in these stores have ranged from $12
to $25 per week, but $40 for the chief
and $18 for the assistant have pre-
vailed generally. r.
Under the new scale the clerks III
these stores vii! receive $16 and S14.
It is estimated that the weekly pay
roll of the United Cigar Stores com
pany has been cut on an, average Of
SIS to 81 a store / ss4tss.ss.
With more than 700 stores in oper-2
alton this would mean a saving Of
from $500 to $500 a week, or from
$175,000 to $250,000 year.
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CLEAR STATELANDS
W|THPR|sON
Convict Labor Committee of Fed.
GRAFTON of Labor Pays Visit to
y Saltwater Prison. s :;

The conwtct labpr committee of
the Minnesota State Federation Of
Labor visited the prison at saltwater
this, week for the purpose Of making
an Investigation of the workings of
inmates. The committee spent a
considerable portion. of one day at
both prisons, and every information
that was wanted was given by the
prison officials cheerfully.
The committee has, it is reported,
practically agreed upon the plan to
utilize convicts for the clearing of
state lands. Its report will be made
to the convention Of the federation
TO be held here in July.
One scheme suggested is to clear
10 acres in every SO-acre tract, and
to sell the land direct to settlers.
This would do more, it is said, to en-
cou-aging settlement on state lands
than anything thus far DEVISED.
In sny event union labor is de.
termiEed to wage war agains: the
contract labor system, aud against
all prison work that effects free la
bcr, and that does not help the pris-
oners.
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of police the club over the bartenders
they would like to hayea club that
would be dangerously welded in the
hands Of tyrannicaily inclined officials,
because of the Consequences its use
would have upon the victim and his
means Of gaining a.livehhood. 4 Il
The police. power sought by Com
missioner Hicken II the licensing of
bartenders will some time, possibly
when Mr.. Hicken issno more as com.
missioner of publickafety,, be used to
shift the responsibility for law observ-
ance from the saIon owner to the
bartender It will easier to revoke
the license of the Ian who has only
his job to lose thai 1t will be to re-
woke the. license Af the man who
would suffer loss Of 3rpperty.
Blended By fheir Zeal.
Why can not the Jaw enforcement
element in Duluth s4e this vital point
in the ultimate effet OF the ordi-
nance? There will come time some
day when man subject to influence
will have charge ohthe' public safety
division of our city Sovernment. The
saloon man backed N the influence OF
the brewer and Other creditors, in
such event, will SEE IS 1t that the bar
tender will be madesthe goat, The
bartender will haYeSIess political in
fluence than his boss. He will be
flned for violating the liquor law, and
his license will be revoked. while the
owner will be permitted to, go scot
free. If. such a time should come
again; and it is, ever imminent, strict
1aw.enforcement IA aDuluth would be
a huge joke. Is r. 'sS
It has been said an answer to our
protest against the principle of Hcen-
sing bartenders that5other wage earn
ers have, through their unions. urged
the passage Of license Saws. Such trades
BARRIERS, horseshoers, = electricians
and engineers are regulated by license.
But the principle IN these trades is
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COUNCIL CHAMBER
:. KANGAROO COURT j =
th1n -
Belle @ manufacturers Were
Too h. ~ In Revoking sa-
loon License of Sholund.
ACTION OF COUNCIL
MAY INFLUENCE COURT
Judicial Temperament Of Com.
missioners Missing-Ven-
geance Takes Its Place.

The city council chamber has be-
come a veritable kangaroo Court"
1t is true there are a number of peo-
pie who Endorse everything that may
be done against a man in the liquor
business, and the harder city officials
60 after him the better they like it.
Fanaticism and justice never have,
nor never will, play together.
1t may be that Charles Sholund,
the accused saloon keeper, was guilty
Of the offense charged against him.
If the stories in the daily newspapers
of mis- arrest are true he ought to lose
his license, out no matter what the
evidence against him may be, he
should be presumed to be innocent un-
Ill after his trial in municipal court
Hicken should at least give an out
ward appearance of fairness. Sho.
lund is awaiting trial in municipal
court. No jury is to determine the
facts in his case. The judge will lis
ten to the evidence and determine
the accused mans guilt or innocensc
Several hundred people petitioned the
council to postpone. action on the re.
vocation Of Sholund's license until
after his trial.
Hicken Was Impatient.
But Hicken was impatient; he
could not wait; the cards were
stacked against the accused man, and
his license was revoked. Now his
case will go to trial: the court. will
have knowledge of the councils &C.
ton; the mans guilt is already pre-.
sumed, and he will stand about as
much chance for justice and a square
deal in the municipal court as would
a rat in a. corner surrounded by a
litter of terriers.
Gentlemen, you will not be per.
mitted to get away with such actions
very much longer. We will go the
limit with you in the enforcement 4oi
law, but we balk at the arbitrary
course. You. have adopted, IN which
you attempt to prejudice the courts
against men charged with violating
the law.
We have not heard Of this 'lav
enforcement" council revoking thu
franchises of. the public service cor
porations which violated the provision
of the charter by their failure tt
make proper financial report to the
city; neither have they been hale6
into court and tried for such alleged
violation of the law. But then o.
course, there is difference between
saloons and public service corpora
tions;' We forgot about that.
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SENATOR BOYLE V|lS
GOOD LABOR REt5>:::
Eveleth Statesman Looms Up
Strong for Congress-Did
Fine Work in Legislature.
SYSTEM SERVERS TOOK
HIM TO MOUNTAIN TOP
Showed Him Land of Promise,
But He Remained True-0ppo-
nent Had Same Experience.

State Senator James P. Boyle Of
Eveleth for Congress-! That sounds
pretty good. Senator Boyle an
nounced his candidacy late last week,
and it is taking with the people in a
way that gives his friends mighty
good encouragement.
The Labor World has soft spot
in it's editorial heart for Senator
Boyle. OF course this is outside of
his party affiliations. When Senator
James P. Boyle went down to the
state senate four years ago the crowd
Of old standpatters that ran the po-
litical affairs Of this neck of the
woods for so long took the brilliant
young senator to ''the top of the
mountain" and from there they
showed to him the beautiful land of
political promise which would be
open to him, with all its milk and
honey" If he would only "be good"
A Peep at '"The Promised Land"
They did the same thing with Clar-
ence B. Miller when he was elected
to the legislature in 1906. Mr.. Mil
ler was backed by Duluth progress
sives, and particularly by Duluth
union labor men. Indeed he was so
appreciative of the support he re-
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The jolly president will be entitled to
enjoy his joke and also the dividends
on the fourteen millions.
When the day of settlement comes,
the court Will have to say what the
wagon is worth. Suppose the, court
finds it is worth fifteen millions. The
company will protest that 1t should
have fourteen millions more. what
for?" the court will ask. why for
this horse" the company will say.
Then they will bring the horse out
and look it over, s--' i a.
Horse Becomes Old and Spawned.
We will call the horse by the name
OF "Josy b. after a famous charact-
er in one Of Dickens novels. The
horse is twenty years old. He is heavy
and spawned, sway backed and STIFF
and thin. The poor old nag has been
worked to q shadow Whose horse
is that?'' the court will demand.
We'll, it is the city's horse now the
company's attorneys will have, to ad :
NIT. But your, Honor, we think 1t
would be no more than fair for the
city to pay the company for the horse,
even though the horse now belongs
to the city and not to the company
The court will probably inquire
With some surprise why the city
should be expected to do any such
thttng. -FOUR Honor the company's
attorneys will say because the: COM
pany has already sold the horse
What! sold 9 borrowed horse sold
horse that did not belong to the
company 2 Well, il your Honor
please, !" the attorneys would say,
that is not just the way we would
express It. but something OF that sort
has been done. In short, the COM
pany borrowed the horse OF. the city
hut after borrowed the horse the
com mpany capita lized and sold the
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stock. At the time, your Honor, a
transaction of this sort was not con.
sidered reprehensible any more than
it should be considered reprehensible
for a United States senator to receive
Standard Oil Trust certificates in re-
turn for legal services Now, il your
Honor please, we think you should
let bygones be bygones. The fact is,
the horse has been purchased by in
nocent parties, and :. these innocent
parties should be protected"
F: When 1t Is Safe to Steal.
AT this point, as may be imagined
the judge inquiring with some heat
why their client should not be prose-
cuted as, 2 horse-thief, the learned
counsel would very promptly and
truthfully reply: .'Your Honor. we'll
knows that it is the custom to put
men in Jail for stealing twenty dol-
lar horse. or a fifty dollar. horse,
there Is no precedent and no author
.ity anywhere for taking criminal ac-
ton against man who steals a four-
teen million dollar horse. The horse
Is 50 valuable your Honor, that the
very suggestion Of any guilt In the
theft is preppsterous."' '35 '5s55
OF course, this court scene will
never happen. Not in Just this way.
What will happen Is this. When ths
public. utility commission gets to
work .vauing the street car property,
the company will employ experts OF
its, own to make valuation; but the
company.s experts will be hired not
tcs value the property, but to hide the
horse. They Will be hired to hide that
fourteen million horse, so that the
city can be induced to pay for sits owr,
horse without knowing It. Disgusting
horses OF this kind has come to- be sa
highly scientific ana PRO pfitable bust-
ness. The horse win ~ q suceessful-
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SEEK FUNDS TO HELP
IN TRIAL OF PERSON

The Chicago Federation of Labor
is out with a circular urging the
trade unions of the. country to con-
tribute money for the trial of Carl
e. Person, secretary of the striking
shop employees on the Illinois Central
and. Hartman lines, charged with
murder at Clinton, Ill. - +
Tony Musser, ex-chief of police at
Clinton, and acting at the time as
a strike ! breaker, decoyed Person
from his Office through a false tele-
phone message. He then pounced
upon Person, beat, battered. and
kicked him, until he was in a ,dazed
condition. In, self defense Person
was compelled to use his revolver.
Contributions to assist in the trial
should be sent to Edward Nockels,
secretary Chicago Federation of La
bor, 1e6 w. Washington street, Chi
cago, ILL.,. 5~.-"s = .r ,...
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To get a valuation without some
horse in it-that is too much to hope
for-but probably we shall not have
to pay within many millions as much
for this horse as ,Weshould have paid
a. few years ago.
Make Them Dead Horses
If the people of Cincinnati want to
pay fourteen million dollars to some
body else for a horse which is already
theirs, that is their privilege. All we
insist upon Is that this horse shall not
be done up in packages and marked
overhead charges, going concern, alb
selecence, good-will," and sold to- us
under false and misleading labels.
The people have a legal right to
give the company authority to collect,
from future street car riders enough
money In addition to interest upon.
their property to pay for this horse,
but We insist that s these packages
shall be marked dead horse and
that the people shall know what they
are getting for their money. b
+ But we shall make it our aim 10
see that just as little OF the peoples
money is squandered in this way. For
this we shall be called hard names,
but BY the millions that we save we
shall ighten the burdens Of tired peo-
|ple, from whose poverty the burden
should have to come. We are under
no delusion. Not even those who are.
saved the burden OF, these taxes will
remember long or care. But we can
not escape the conviction that 1t mat
ters much to us. both now and In the
eternal years, that we should do our
part without hope Of praise and With
out fear Of hate. to promote justice
and fair dealing among men. Wheth-
er there be few wit us or many,
whether We be weak or strong, We
car, at least fight q good fight ana
IkAan| n 1ait = ez
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COLORADO MILITIA
BRUTAL TO women
Stories Of Abuses to Women and
Children In Miners Strike
Come Out in Investigation. i i
SOLDIER KICKS BOY;
GENERAL CRUEL TOO
Witnesses Tell How Their Homes
Were Searched and Private
At Papers Examined.

DENVER, Col. Feb. 27.-(Special.)
Stories of abuses upon women and
children, :of robberies and other law
breaking acts Of the militia, and of
the tyranny and expressions of the
coal operators in Southern Colorado
struck terror into the hearts of those
who heard the congressional witnesses
at Trinidad this week and made an
evident deep impression on the con-
gressmen. -, :. - Il;
Probably one of the most notorious
outrages exposed was that told by
little nine-year-oid Justus Yankinski,
whose mother was robbed of 5000 by
one mil1tlamans while the captain"
lay out in the buggy drunk.
Z Justus told Of how ~the soldiers
had come to the house one afternoon.
while his mother was away. One
walked into the house and, without
trying the trunk, demolished it with
an AK. Clothes were scattered over
the floor until this Colorado "preserv-
er of the peace" found an old coat
When he shook it, Mrs. Yankinski's
pocketbook fell to the floor. Tear
ing it open, the soldier took the 5000.
Kicked Little Boy.
The little BOY protested, saying that
his mamma would whip him and was
answered with kick by the militia
man. The three other small chill
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The amendments proposed by Com
missioner Hicken to his Bartenders'
license ordinance are not satisfactory.
The Bartenders' union contends
that the only difference they make in
the measure is the difference between
IS and 81. Otherwise the ordinance
practically remains the same.
1t is true that 81 a year is a very
nominal fee. If the principle of Ii
censing wage earners was admitted
no 'one could justly complain about
the amount of the fee to be charged.
1t is the smallest that could consist
emily be made.
But our objection to a bartenders'
license arises from higher grounds
than that Of the amount of the fee.
OF course high fee would be a tax
as any other license tax, except that it
would be levied on wages rather than
upon the traffic, such as all other
liquor licenses are levied
The Right to 1--we Paramount. -
We oppose bartenders' license
upon the ground that no workingman
should be dependent. upon the whim,
fancy, prejudice or will OF a city com.
mission for his right to gain a livelt.
hood for himself and his family. II
is, in the last analysis dangerous
and autocratic assumption of power
If there are any so-called bad or
undesirable bartenders in Duluth the
commissioner Of public safety can find
way of getting rid of them through
the saloon owner, and should saloon
owner refuse to comply with the com.
missioner's request, and there follows
a violation of the liquor law, the com.
missioner can hold the owner respon.
sible, and if need be revoke his Ii.
cense, as he did in the Buchanan &
Hogan case.
But this would not give the com.
missioner of public safety or his chie1
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BUYING DEAD HORSES, BAD CITY BUSHES

evitable result that when the frau
ehise expires, there is financial chaos.
When the day of reckoning comes
these companies have but one way of
escape. They seek to have an extra
VACANT valuation placed upon their
physical property, and they try to pre-
vent the public from understanding
that this extravagant valuation in
cludes the capitalization of the fran
chise, which is no longer theirs.
Horse Thieves and Franchise.
Suppose the people of the little
community Of Fruit Hill where 1 hive
an express wagon into town that they
| would offer to loan me a horse for a
year, if I would buy wagon and en-
gage in the express business. -,
What would be said of me, if, after
| accepting the loan of the horse and
investing in wagon, I should sell
the horse together with the wagon
as though they were both mine. They
! would call me 2 horse-thief, and the
community to which the horse bo-
longs would have right to send and
take it wherever it might be found.
But suppose, after having accepted
the loan Of the horse, I organized a
stock company and sell stock to the
value of both the horse and wagon.
At the end of the year I would be
compelled to surrender the horse and
the investors would discover they had
| nothing but a wagon for the STOCK
and bonds which had been issued for
the full value of both horse and wag-
on. i would still be a horse-thief,
would I not? "" E.a...sse .s5s& :,,1 :;,'13 = e
| The franchise is the horse--tl1e
physical property, is the wagon or q
street car brother. public utility cor
poration. The horse is loaned to the
company and must be returned. But