Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-09-14
MINERS WALK OUT
Eight Thousand Union Workers
in Southeast Part of State
Quit Their Jobs.
TIRED OF OPERATORS DELAY
Nearly Every Big Mine in District
Has Been Closed-Scale Confer
ence Is Dragging.

out in the Southeast Kansas coal
fields the other day as result of dis.
satisfaction over delay in closing a
new agreement with the Southeastern
Coal Operators Association.
The miners marched all day, calling
out members of the union from mine
after mine. At the close of the day
every big mine in the district had
been closed except Weir No. 81 and
two Santa Fe mines in the south part.
The walkout affected mines of the
Western Coal and Mining Company,
the Central Coal and Coke Company,
the ]. R. Grove Coal and Mining Com
pany, the Sheridan Company, Weir
Coal Company and the Katy companies.
The miners declared they would not
return to work unless a clause is in
serted in their contract providing that
union miner shall not be discharged
without reason nor without the con.
sent of the unions. Strip pits, big
were not affected.
Alexander Howat, president of Dis.
trict No. IA of the miners union, said
the miners were FESTIVE because the
wage scale conferences were drag.
ging.
81 told local officials of the union at
Pittsburg over the telephone that the
men would not be asked to work any
more until the operators indicate they
want to be fair" said Mr.. Howat. Il
know and every miner knows the op.
orators do not care whether we ever
reach an agreement so long as the
mines continue to run"
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Hunt Boys Slayer.-Officer of Sa-
lima are looking for a transient shoe
maker, who is suspected of the muir
der of Lewis Parks of Perryvile, Mo-,
at Zurich, Kan, two weeks ago and
whose body was found in house
there recently. Parks was a harvest
hand who had finished work and was
ready to return home. He met the
shoemaker, became the latter's guest
for the night. Both men disappeared.
Later the body of Parks was found
in the house they had occupied. Parks
was 10 years old and had been in
Kansas since harvest. He was known
to have had $25.
Five Claim $1,000 Reward.-Five
men are claiming the $1,000 reward
which was offered for the arrest of
Homer NJ Cullor, the man who has
confessed to the killing Of Sheriff
Walt Davis of Lyon county. ]. G. LiY-
ingston of Mountain Grove, Mo-, P. j.
McNerlin Of Keota, Ia, and three
other men, who are said to have as
sisted in the bandits capture, are
claiming a share Of the reward. Gull
lor is in the Topeka jail. The con-
troversy may be decided in the courts.
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600 Enrolled at -Haskeli.-Haskell
Indian institute opened for the fall
term with an enrolment of more than
600 Indian youths, including 200 new
students from all Indian reservations
in the country. About 100 more stu
dents will reach Lawrence later, max
ing Haskell the. largest Indian school
in the country.
Retired Banker Dies.-Wilson A.
Walker, retired banker, is dead at
his home in Atchison, aged 67. For
many years before moving to Atchison
he was in the banking business at Eff.
fingham.
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Dunkards to Wichita.-The Church
of the Brethren, or Dunkards, has de-
cided to hold its next annual national
convention at Wichita in June, 1917.
1t is estimated the attendance will be
ten thousand.
To Build Prison SiIo.-Warden T.
w. Morgan of the federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth has been authorized
by the government to purchase and
install 130-ton silo. The drouth and
the need of something to keep feed
for the large herd of prison milk COWS
finally induced the government to go
into the silo feed proposition.
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Pageant at osawatomle .-More than
three thousand persons observed the
sixtieth anniversary of the Battle of
Osawatomie recently. Governor Capper
delivered the speech dedicating the
bronze tablet given by the Woman's
Relief Corps Of Kansas and dedicated
to the Grand Army of. the Republic.
At night dramatic pageant reproduc-
ing 1.-THE Battle of Osawatomie was
given. This celebration will be OBJ
served annually August 10. -.
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Conscience Paid Her Fare.-Eugene
Morality, city ticket agent for, the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
road at. Wichita; has received a letter
in which were three~$1O bills and
50 bill with note signed by a girl
who said she had been converted at
the holiness camp meeting there.
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Used Wooden key.-With wooden
keys whitfield from broom handle,
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