The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-01-01
PRECEDENT FOR BLOOD
LETTING.

Michigan copper mining district. The
death of az persons in a hall on
Christmas eve because some one,
perhaps an enemy OF the striking
miners VIII ose families were gathered
in the hall-started an alarm of fire,
is followed quickly by an assault up-I
on Charles III. Meyer, head of the
Western Federation of Miners. Pre-
ceding this and following the disas-
ter of Christmas eve, the bitterness
between the strikers and their OPP
ponents had been greatly increased by
the refusal of the strikers to accept
$4,000 of relief money offered to
the families afflicted on Christmas
eve. This angered the citizens and
mipe-owners, who had thought to
show their sympathy by their gifts.
President Meyer of the Miners was
blamed for the action of the men IN
refusing the money rendered. No
doubt 1t was felt that he was trying
TO make capital out Of the Christmas
tragedy for the aid of the strikers to
help in winning the strike and also
that his action wotlld tend to create
the impression with the public that
the mine-owners and their friends
had been responsible for the Christ
mas eve affair.
However that may be, 1t is GER
tain that the Citizens Alliance, repre-
senting the side Of the miners in the
strike, was responsible for the wound
ing of Meyer and for his deportation.
1t was i~ndefensible. 1t was brutal
and stupid. This, more than any
thing else that has occurred, would
cause the public to connect the nine
owners with the killing OF the ~
who died in the Christmas hall. The
employers have been guilty of that
yiolencs which they have nearly all
ways charged to the strikers and they
have themselves provided a precedent
for the bloodshed that all too often
accompanies such contests of greed
Or greed andsneed peralaps4-as IRE
found in clashes of capital and labor.
Te~
II is a cause for qualification to
the management of The Mitchell Pub
fishing Company that the Christmas
Spirit Is given the right of way in
this establishment. So far from be-
Ing out of place in a business institu.
ton, such manifestations as the pre-
s%entation Of a handsome gift to, the
manager and the remembrance of
each of the 80 employees by the man
agement give evidence of that spirit
Of corporation and good Fellowship
which is Indispensable to the greatest
efficiency in any business enterprise.
u .HIAa EFaH
Never has this company enjoyed SO
efficient a force Of men in all the de.
partments of this company and never
mas there been a better spirit of 10y
atty by all Of these on. the payroll.
This becomes a matter of public in.
terest to Mitchell only because this
company has the largest payroll in
the city, aside from the railroad COM.
epanies, and because by far the larger
part of this income is Brought to Nit
eheH from outside the city of Nit
chell. Therefore it is Of value not
only to the company but to the city as
we'll that such a splendid force. act
'uated with SO much faithfulness and
good feeling, should be working to-
gether to bring an ever larger share
of success to its business.
@o~
ROMANCE OF THE WOILD,S
GREATEST OIL WE'LL
BY far the most spectacular oil
in California, and probably in
the world, is the Lakeview. This Won
derful we'll "gushedn steadily for IS
months at the rate of 10000 barrels
q day. The story of the looming I'M
of the Lakeview Is very wildly told
one Of the owners in the January
Wide World.
At midnight on March 18th, he
the oil-sana was conferred in
we'll No. /, which started to ..gushn. |
;ch0ked up in a few minutes, fol-
lowing which nothing was done until
n Tuesday morning, when the bailer
was dropped down the hole to loosen
the sand. Suddenly. during the pro-
press OF the churning, the bridge was
broken up. and the. bailer shot Quit
OF he hole with terrific force, ;lods-i
ing halfway through thesoromn block
at the topaOf the derrick. Until eightI