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willard
F.. Bout On April 8

HAVANA, March 11-Jack johnson
has started training in earnest. The
big negro was up early. and, accom-.
panied by couple OF his trainers hit
the road.
Jack Curly, upon rsceiving word
from Jess Willard that he would ar.
rive here March Is. set the date for the
championship battle US April 3. The
Havana race track has been chosen as
the scene Of the conflict.
1t is now planned TO have the races
run of early and TO stage the fight at
their conclusion. The same terms that
applied with the staging of the bout at
Jnarez will be granted the fighters
here. Additional training expenses
expenses have been allowed both prin.
cipals.
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Wan. 10 Sell. III. {: . Want Al.
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Enrolment In the Various
Clubs Is Larger Than
Ever Before.
POULTRY TAKES THE [EAD
GREAT INTEREST MANIFESTED
IN FARMING BY BOTH OLD
AND YOUNG.

Hundreds OF boys and girls In Marion
county arc showing splendidly active
interest In scientific agriculture, inclul.
ing poultry and stock raising. by en-
rolling In the club work under the di.
rection of County Agricultural agent
II. L. Smith. The young people al.
ready enrolled arc for the most part
residents OF Fairmont and Lincoln
districts where e. B. Whaley, district
superintendent Of schools, has visited
practically all the school houses and
aroused inGrest In the work so deep
that hundreds OF boys and girls have
Joined the various clubs.
The parents also are interested in
scientific agriculture aud great prog.
ress has been made in the county dur
Ing the last year III bringing the farms
into higher state Of cultivation.
Modern and scientific methods of ag-
rlculture have been introduced and
scores Of farmers are filing applica-
tions to act as demonstrators" OF
scientific cultivation under MIR. Smiths
direction.
The enrolment in the boys and
girls poultry club Is very large totaling
more than all others combined. Each
member of this club must secure three
settings OF eggs. pure bred II possible,
OF standard breed, such as White Leg
horn, Barred Rock, Rhode Island Red,
or other good breeds. Where possible
the club members should secure tho
eggs by buying them or else he can ar.
range with a poultry breeder to furnish
eggs at reduced price or give them
back matured pullets or cockerels to
pay for. eggs. Some local fanciers have
agreed to furnish eggs Of fine stock at
half price and take one pullet from
each setting to pay for the eggs. All
club members should secure eggs at
once as early chicks do best. District
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club agent, A. L. Thomas, has charge
in Warrington district. Oliver Shurt.
ieif in Paw Paw district, and e. B.
Whalcy, district superintendent OF
schools in Fairmont and Lincoln dis.
trlcts. Prospective members in Win
field. Union and Grant districts can
write to H. Smith, County Agricultural
Agent, Fairmont, or ask their school
teacher to do SO and secure enrolment
cards for Poultry, Pig, Corn or Potato
Club work.
Miss Cora Price, the Pine Grove
school teacher, recently appointed
county agent for Marion county under
the direction of Miss Sadie Guseman,
state agent at Morgantown, is in
charge Of the Marion County Girls
Canning Club.
"A list of the names and addresses
OF the boys and girls enrolled to date
In the corn. pig, potato and poultry
clubs 10 as follows:
Acre Corn Contest for Boys-Des.
mond Sattertleld. Worthington, n. 9;
Elmous Davis, Worthington, r. Q Box
4; Hobart Jones. Pennington: Denzel
Toothman, Pennington: oIay Jones,
Pennington; Hugh Clelland, Farming:
ton, r. 2, Box 20: George Martin, Farm.
ington; Robert Morris. Pennington, r.
2; Earl Parker, Fairview; Gay Tooth.
man, Pennington: John Dodd, Fair.
mont, Il. J., Box SO: Cecil Dodd, Fair.
mont, r. /. Box 60; VIM. Lee Straight,
Barrackville.
200 Hill Corn Contest-Karl Koch.
cor, Pennington. r. 1; Villa Clelland,
Farminton, r. 8; Georgia Graham,
Broomneld; Lester Atha, Pennington;
Delbcrt Pitzer, Pennington, r. 2; Hugh
FISHER, Warrington. Il. 1: William
Reese, Brownfeld; Blair Jones, Brown,
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Clar'lkEsburg Meets
Fairmont Tonight

Tonightsat tho Y. M. C. A. building
the fast clarksburg basketball team
VIII meet the local association team.
This game is expected TO be fast one
as the Glarksburg boys defeated the
Fairmont team in game at Clarks,
burg last week.
Tomorrow night the slstersville
High school plays the local High
school team while on Saturday night
the association five will meet the five
representing the West Virginia Uni,
versity.
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OFF.

The three teams that were tied up
for second position in the Temple
winter league, Braves, Independents
and BARRIERS. rolled off the tie, each
team rolling three games, total pins
to count, and highest total to take sec.
ond prize, the second high third prize
and third, fourth prize. The Braves
set the pace with a total OF 1904; the
Independents came next with 1908.
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alaLE CLASS \. M El: MEET.

Tho Maple avenue silSts class viii
meet This evening 81 4 so ii the Mi.
Ter school. II 81 desired that all the
members he present aud bring tho
Red books. '
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a rival card to the kilbane.wllliams

a rival card to the Kilbane.Williams
set.to. ~
New York fight results last night
are as follows: Teddy Jacobs knocked
out Young Libby in the first round;
Jack Driscoll lost to Jack Hanlon on
foul In hte sixth round: Eddie Cook
and Patsy Callahan fought 1o.round
draw; Jack White stopped Ducly
Holmes in the seventh round; "Har.
lem Eddie" Kelly defeated Joe Gold.
berg, of Rochester, in 10 rounds.
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LATEST SPORTING NEWS

The BARRIERS could not adjust their
eyes on that center pin and finished
last. Harden pulled his team to vic.
tory by rolling AIS. The scores:
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: IN -
PAsTlmE LEAGUE

PAsTiME LEAGUE.
The Fat Chance boys put 1t all over
the Zeppelins last night In the Pas.
time League. Holland was the big
chief of the match. The scores:
yEfppETiINc
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
OFFICIALS INDICTED

Chicago-Four officials of the com
pany that owns the Inflated Eastland,
together with the steamers captain
and engineer, have been indicted by a
state grand jury on charges of man
slaughter and criminal carelessness
The officials are charged, substantially,
as follows:
That they knew the Eastland was
unseaworthy and had no stability.
That they permitted $500 passen.
gers aboard the vessel, which is more
than its carrying capacity.
That they were negligent in hiring
an incompetent engineer, and that be
cause of his lack of skill he was un
able to control the boat properly.
That there was not sufficient hell
on the ship to manage and control hei
properly.
That the ballast tanks were allowed
to be out of repair and not filled will
water.
1t is stated that the grand jury i,
considering other indictments.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
PULLMAN HEADS REBUKED

Chicago-The Pullman company
board of directors has refused to act
on the matter of granting wage in
creases to its sleeping car porters and
conductors which Chairman Walsh
of the commission on industrial re-
lations interprets as an affront at the
commission because OF its recent in
vestigation of the Pullman company.
Chairman Walsh said:
THE company's failure to act after
the assurance of Mr.. Lincoln, chair
man of the company's board of direc-
tors, that he would bring up the mat
ter at the next meeting of the board,
and after his own admission that part
of the company's huge profits were
derived by underpayment of its faith
full employees, can be explained only
by the indifference and disregard OF
its wealthy directors as to the we'll
being of the faithful employees who
man its cars. To refuse justice to
these employees because of oique at
the action of this commission in ex-
posing conditions of employment in
its car service, is a policy that needs
no comment.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
"a sAcRIFIcE TO CREEDD

Madison, Visit is not at all diff
cult to fix the responsibility" writes
Senator LaFollette, in discussing the
Eastland disaster in the current issue
of LaFollette's Magazine.
THE Eastland tragedy is the direct
outcome of loose inspection laws and
lax regulations of the government in
spection service for the control OF
passenger steamers, especially those
in phe excursion business. Steamboat
managers are eager to get permission
to carry the largest possible number
of passengers each trip so they may
pile up profits. The existing law en-
powers the board of supervising in
spectors to make the rules in each
case and to limit the number of pas
sengers. Here was plainly a case
where ship owners greed conspired
with governmental complaisance.
''And let this be emphasized: If the
seamen's law had been in effect July
"a the Eastland catatrophe would, in
all human probability, not have hap
pened."
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
IMPORTANT STRIKE SETTLED

Washington-The strike of shop
men employed by the Kansas City
Terminal company was one OF the
most important cases handled by the
federal department of labor is the re-
port of William Blackman, commits
sioner OF conciliation, representing
the department.
The strike was caused by the COM
pany discharging thirty-four workers
and committee which asked the
management to accept working rules
agreed to by nine railroads. With
the assistance of Commissioner
Blackman an agreement was reached
whereby all discharged men and the
strikers returned to work, and within
sixty days negotiations between the
company and representatives of the
employees will undertake to adopt a
set of shop rules, conditions of en-
ployment, hours of service, wages,
rates, etc, which can be mutually
agreed upon. The importance of this
strike is indicated by the federal COM
missioners' statement that the COM
pany takes care of twelve railroads
running into the city and if the con-
troversy were not adjusted it was
liable to eventually include 10000
workers, followed by all the evils of a
general strike.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
FOREIGN ILLITERATES COM.
MON PREY IN u. S.

Washington-The federal bureau of
naturalization, department Of labor,
makes public much interesting infor-
nation in a report on its work OF
making citizens out of the raw ma
teriai of the resident foreigner"
The figures refute claims made by
opponents of immigration restriction
and literary test, urged by the
American Federation Of Labor These
opponents have pictured immigrants
from certain sections of Europe as
imbued with the lofty purpose of conf
ing to America to establish home
and assist in the work of developing
freedom and democracy for all men.
These oratorical illusions are not
supported by the bureaus cold dec
laration that foreign illiterates main
tain their allegiance to European po-
tentates and that these illiterates are
an easy prey to exploiters.
1t is stated that in 1910 there were
nearly 100000 foreigners in this
country, that of this number 1000, 900
were not citizens, and that the foreign
body has been increased nearly l,OO0,-
900 annually since that time.
The report shows that during the
past nine years upwards of $4,000 for
eigners have been refused citizenship
papers. One half of these have been
declared to be either morally or men
tally unfit.
The bureau makes this comment on
the large number of non-citizens in
this country:
g. he IL nf the
| foreign residents of this country have
retained their allegiance to the SOW
ereignty of their birth. Recently re-
ports in the public press have shown
many of these are ready to respond
to the behest of these sovereignties
1t is we'll known that large numbers
returned immediately upon the cal
of the country of their nativity, leav'
ing the ties, personal, family, indus
trial. and others which have growr
up in this country, for the stronger
call of elleigance to the foreign SOW
ereignty This was the case prior tC
the great war of Europe, in the lesser
wars among the Balkan states"
The following statement by the bu
reau is an unqualified endorsement
of the position taken by organized
labor in its advocacy of literary ties
for immigrants:
among the approximately $4,000,
600 foreign alien residents. l,65O.3o
are classed as illiterate. These litter
ates are the natural prey of the de
signing and scheming foreigners an'
natives, as well. at every turn. They
compel them to pay tribute, both il
cash and blood. for every service boil
real and imagined, and in the graft
fcation of their desires, however un
scrupulous or unnatural"
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
ENL1oHrENINe THE COURTS

Another evidence that the courts
are growing more liberal in labor dis
putes comes from the action of the
Colorado Supreme Court in barring
Judge Cranky Hillyer from trying
any more cases in which the mine
owners and miners are contending
parties. This decision grants a SUI
persedeas in the case of John r. Law
son, the labor leaders who was con-
Nvicted of murder in Judge Hillyer's
court and the Supreme Court will now
,go into the merits of Lawson's de-
mands for a new trial 1t was shown
that Hillyer had been the attorney for
the Rockefeller mining interests and
that his rulings were prejudicial to
the interests of Lawson as a labor
leader.
The courts are bound by prece-
dents and one decision is based upon
those which have gone before, so, as
in times past, the courts have been
largely controlled in the interest of
private property they continue to be
largely influenced that way long after
a change in conditions and in public
opinion have made. such decisions APP
pear as rank injustice. From these
precedents, the courts, in response to
a more enlightened public opinion are
forced to turn to a broader ind truer
Interpretation Of the law. The time
was when Lawson's appeal would
have been unceremoniously thrown
out of court, but now temporary re-
lief is granted and the corporation
controlled judge is shorn of his pow.
err The decision is one more con.
vincing piece Of evidence that labor
is coming into its own, and shows the
growing power of an enlightened
public sentiment upon the Judicial
branch of the, government.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
GOOD TIMES AHEAD

When one goes into detail in a sur
tey of the situation in Idaho he can
zee no reason for the continuance of
an era Of depression. In fact, there
are those who claim that the depres-
sed condition is localized to Boise and
vicinity and that the State at large
has already entered upon an era of
general prosperity. AS is well-known
there have been evidence of genuine
and substantial boom at Pocatello,
while all southeastern Idaho in fact,
is pushing ahead at a lively rate. In
northern Idaho the mining industry
was never in better condition, while
the lumber industry is recovering
from an era of stagnation. while the
crops are simply astounding.
In the vicinity of Boise crops were
never larger and prices are good.
There are also indications of a great
mining revival in the Boise basin,
Pearl and other nearby sections. The
days OF gloom and pessimism are
over: the day of endeavor and prog
ress is at hand.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
THE MYTHICAL" LABOR VOTE

Leslie's Weekly the most servile of
the corporation controlled newspap-
ers of the United States speaks con-
stantly of the mythical labor vote"
1T is too true that in times past the
labor vote was never used as it was
expected to be in the united support
of labor's demands. There were many
reasons for this. Party politics cut
much larger swath in past years and
the laboring man, like all others, was
more or less slave to partisanship;
then the coersive and cajoling meth
DDS of large employers had greater in
fuence and the unions were not so
able to protect their members against
injustice and were not so strongly en-
4renched by laws and by public senti-
ment as now. The labor vote may at
any time prove anything but myth
ical" as the corporation tools may
discover.
In recent issue Leslie's is very
bitter against the New Jersey authori-
ties for not having the State militia
fire upon the strikers at the Bayonne
plant of the Rockefellers. and upholds
the owners in hiring thugs to do so,
and commiserates with the thugs over
the possibility that some of them will
land in the New Jersey penitentiary.
1t asserts the public officials were
scared by the fear OF the labor vote,
which it sneers at as mythical"
1t is up to organized labor to show
the tools of the Rockefellers and the
piutocracy generally that the labor
vote is not as mythical" as they
would be pleased to have it.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
RAILROADS NOT BLAMELEss

" New York-The poor, down trod-
den railroad corporations" receive
little sympathy from S. S. Fontaine,
a stock market expert, who writes as
follows in last Sundays New York
World:
Railroad reform has made some
progress, but it has not yet reached
a point where it can be said that the
management of these corporations is
all that could be desired or expected.
Even their more friendly critics are
not prepared to concede that during
the long period of depression from
which every industry and every en-
terprise in the country has suffered
to a greater or less degree, they have,
as a whole, practised the rigid and
scientific economies to which other
classes of business have resorted with
such wholesome results. AS a rule
their retrenchments have been at the
cost of efficiency, and there has been
no sincere effort to abolish special
privileges, which are constant
source of waste, and to root out the
graft system that has attached itself to
practically every trunk line in the
country through the medium of sup
ply companies owned by the operat-
ing or administrative officials"
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
COAL MEN WANT cOSsAcKS

Denver, Colo. Coal operators and
their allies in this state are now en-
gagged in campaign of education on
the benefits of state constabulary.
Advocates of the Cossack system are
alive to the fact that they have dis
credited the state militia and this unit
Of our national defense is having a
hard time living down its connection
with events in southern Colorado
The Rocky Mountain News, publish
ed in this city, is one of the leaders
in the Cossack campaign, and the fol-
lowing editorial ulea is sample of
the clever preliminary moves that are
being cautiously made:
Pennsylvania is the founder OF a
state constabulary system and al
though il met with much opposition
by both sides as an advantage over
the former manner of meeting dis
putes with professional strike-break-
ers, deputy sheriffs sworn in for the
occasion and special police. The con
stabulary is composed of men chosen
for a purpose, without prejudice OF
partisanship. Their duty is to keep
the peace. They take no part in the
controversies that have arisen and re
main impartial.
This movement for state to es'
tabiish a constabulary that would take
charge of intercounty matters is gain.
ing strength for another reason. The
state militia is becoming more of Z
national defense organization and il
dependent upon the war department
and the federal treasury for a portion
of its subsistence and extension. Wher
state militia has to do police duty
and in some manner takes sides in al
industrial political controversy, it
standing as an arm of national de
Tense is hurt. Many citizens woult
gladly serve in national guard tina
would hesitate to join an organiza
ton that is liable to be called out an,
day to quell a local disturbance o
take issue with labor. strike"
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
PRINTERS SELECT BALTIMORE

Los Angeies.--Baltimore was Sc
lected as the 1916 meeting place by the
international Typographical union
convention, in session all last week.
A proposal to increase salaries of the
president and ecretary-treasurer was
non-concurred in. The plan to make
the secretary of unions of less than
100 members convention representa-
tive by virtue of his Office was defeat
ed. Amendments to the priority and
six-day laws were ordered submitted
to referendum. The convention un-
animously voted to strike out the
word female" wherever it appeares
in the constitution and in the bylaws
of the organization and substitute the
word woman"
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
Interwban Lines
IDAHO TRACTION COMPANY

Leave Boise for Eagle, Star Middle
ton and Caldwell: a. M, 200, 800 $50,
Il;oo; p. M, loo. 200, 800. 400, $50,
200, 900. 1l:O0.
Leave Boise for Meridian, Nampa
and Caldwell a. m, $50, 7:30, goo,
1880, 1900 noon; p. m, 1:30, 2:30,
$3.50. "4:3O, 500. $50, 800, $50, 100.
ITO Meridian and McDermott only.
Boise to Duncan Station: Leave:
Boise, a. M, 1920, +7:05; p. M, 1905,
SOS, Cos.
Duncan Station to Boise: Leave
Duncan, a. M, GAS, 1880; p. M, 1890,
$3.50, $50.
*Daiy except Sunday.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
OPPOSE LEASE SYsTEM

Birmingham, The Farmers Edu-
eational COOPERATIVE Union of Ala
bama convention unanimously adopt
ed a resolution calling for the abolish
ment Of the convict lease system and
the placing Of these convicts upon the
public roads. This question is now
being considered by the state legisia-
ture.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
MISSOURI uNIoNIsTs ne MEET

Moberly.-The annual convention
of the Missouri state federation of la
Dor will be held in this city, beginning
Monday, September 20. 1t is expected
that fraternal delegates will be present
from the farmers organizations from
the state declarations OF Kansas, Iowa,
Illinois and Arkansas and from the
Women's Trade Union league.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
sTATE uNIoNIsTs Re MEET

San Francisco-Officers of the Cali
ifornia state federation OF labor have
issued call for the sixteenth annual
convention, to be held at Santa Rosa,
beginning Monday, October A.