The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-08-25
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congress at Washington, 10000 wa
appropriated to build a ne postofic
building. In Gallatin, buii ling whicl
has long been needed in eaat town
The sixteen hundred hen com
missioned at the Fort Oglet#3rpe train
Ing camp have departedAfor thei
homes and will report toShuties as
signed them in various Mnches o
the army after a twelve-di 81 Through
Negro recruits at Fort Mglethorp,
have left for Des Moines, Ava where
they will take up work at NJ hospita
OF the training camp bh Their,
are 36 in all and most Of hem wer,
enlisted in Nashville,
Company K First tn lessee in
fantry, has gone TO GreelM#le, s. G.,
as a special detachment Mhere thu
members will assist in X#aring tht
cantonment for all tho enne8sQt
troops. The company cor Ets OF 15(
men and three officers. Y
An early termination 1.-the coal
strike organized by miners 4 District
| 10, seemed probable, act kding to
| statements made by union &ficials in
| Pineville. They pointed ouVIthat the
| Federal Department of LabcsIhad been
fully advised regarding thu Isituation
in Kentucky and Tennessf1 relative
| to the demands made by TIL strikers,
and expressed the belief ;qplan for
! Cancellation, acceptable to bib miners
and operators, would be tn lresult
1t is anticipated that ! .bre girls
will enter the University Tennes-
see at the fall opening Morbiay, Sep
TENDER H. than has ever at tnded the
institution since its est blishment
more than l2G vPar~ ssc saw the
university officials. Out oisIthe east,
west, north and south code Id haired
lassies, brunettes and bic ldes will
take the place Of manv Of [ h brawny
lads who for years have flade the
University lor ennessee lie center
of learning for the state.
Robert Swepson Cowan, III Knox
vile, stepson of Senator John X.
Shields, who won a comI lssion as
second lieutenant of artillelI at Fort
Oglethorpe, has been assigned to duty
at the cantonment at Fort Mcpherson,
Ca, where he will assist in instruct
ing the men of the national army. Mr..
Cowan chose the artillery branch of
the service, feeling as he did that he
should select the arm of service where
he would see action and thereby render
a great service to his country.
No orders have been reei3ed by the
local military authorities inP ard to
the exact date, when TenneE = las
will leave for Camp Seaisz y 70 ! =.
vile, S. G. The men will REMAIN in
the state until the suppliss are re-
ceived, it is understood, aid all in
! dications are that it will belimpossible
to leave before August rs. 1t is Under
stood that the Tennessee troops will
not leave for France until they under
go a season of intensive training at
Camp SEWER where it is expected
will require several weeks.
The Board of Directors Of the
Federal Lark Bank of Louisville, has
authorized the issuance of $1,000, 900
In bonds, of which $25O,OOO will be
fioated shortly. The remainder prob
ably will be issued in blocks of the
same size at fifteen-day intervals. A
| syndicate of bankers has contracted
through the Federal Farm Loan Board
| at Washington for the purchase of 40
per cent Of the issue. The Remainder
is to be offered to the public at 1918,
bearing interest at Az per cent, fl ee
of taxation.
At a mass meeting of citizens in
Knoxville, resolutions were unani.
mously adopted calling on State Rail.
road Commissioners B. Al. Enloe,
Harvey H. Hannah and ]. A. WEIGH
to resign their offices Immediately be-
cause of their failure to Investigate
properly high prices charged for coal
when instructed to do so by the State
Legislature. The committee reported
that coal, instead of $3.50 per ton now
asked, can be sold profitably to con
sumers for $3.50, and the Federal
Government is asked for Immediate
relief.
The Wisconsin Steel Company, sub
sidiary to the International Harvester
Company is planning, it Is said, to
bring in coal miners from other dis
tricts to supplant the 1000 or more
who went out on a strike at the Ben
ham, Harlan County plant. This is
the largest operation affected by the
strike of 10000 union coal miners in
Southeastern Kentucky and North
eastern Tennessee. Only ten out OF
more than 100 mines are running in
Harlan, Bell, Knox and Whitley coun
ties, Kentucky, and Claiborne and
Campbell Counties, Tennessee.
Two important military camps may
be established in Tennessee within the
near future, II suitable sites can be
I obtained. Governor Rye received a
letter from Major-General Leonard
/ Wood, enclosing letter he had re-
ceived from the secretary of war
ordering him to report by September
80 on suitable sites for an infantry
school Of arms and machine gun
81 hool somewhere within this juris-
diCtion.