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ment to tho public with an appeal for funds to
sustain tho deported miners and their families.
Tho committee says: "It Is not our strugglo
alone. Wo are only bearing tho brunt of battlo
now. Later it may come in tho same way to all
others, for tho right to organize and maintain a
union is tho only issue at stake. If tho Western
Federation of Miners can be ruthlessly destroyed,
then other unions can bo likewise destroyed. This
is tho concern of all. Lot us make common cause
against tho common enemy. Let us pour out our
treasuro to bo used in securing the rights for
union men that are denied them without charge
and without trial."
AN AMALGAMATION of all the valuable mines
in America is the latest thing in trusts, and
according to tho New York correspondent for the
Cincinnati Commercial Tribuno, the man who is
to consummate this stupendous transaction is
John D. Rockefeller. It is claimed that this new
trust under which all tho great mining interests
will bo merged, will have a par capital of $2,500,
000,000. It is said that this trust intends to con
trol absolutely tho mineral output of the United
States, except perhaps that of the Calumet and
tho Heckla copper mines of Michigan.
IT I S explained that for the last ten years,
the Standard Oil millionaires have been ac
quiring tho mines of America through their bank
ing interests. In Colorado, for instance, David
Moffatt arid Dennis Sullivan of the First National
bank of Denver have, it is said, paid out many
millions during tho last six years for producing
mines and they now control seventy per cent of
tho producing gold, silver and lead mines of the
middlo Rocky Mountain district. The Commer
cial Tribuno correspondent adds. "In Califor
nia tho western mine-owning combination con
trolled by tho Haggin and affiliated interests have
been ready for some time to enter into an arrange
ment with Mr. Rockefeller for a general combi
nation of mining properties. Senator W..A. Clark,
owner of tho United Verdo copper mines of. Ari
zona, and with largo holdings in many of the
Amalgamated Copper company's mines in Mon
tana, has been working with Mr. sogers for sev
oral years. F. A. Moinzo, who has given the
Standard OH and copper interests in Montana
so much trouble, has been in this city for several
weeks. Ho is negotiating direct with Mr. Rocke
foller for tho turning over of his interest in Mon
tana to the now combine. B'onator Kearns, of
Utah, has only recently sold to Mr. Rockefeller
his valuable mines for something considerably
over $1,000,000. In Idaho tho Standard Oil com
pany lias had control of the producing mines for
some years. In New Mexico tho lead mines near
the western border passed into control of tho Na
tional City bank some years ago, and there aro
at presont few mining districts in America where
Mr. Rockofeller is not dominant."
AS AN important part of tho plan, it is said
that Mr. Rockof oiler hopes to be able to se
cure from tho United States government a corps of
engineers who are to give to the public a report
of tho actual value of tho properties to be con
solidated. Senator Kearns is quoted as saying
that before January 1, Mr. Rockefeller will be in
a position to make the final movo in his long cher
ished plan.
DENNIS RYAN of St. Paul, through whom has
recently boon sold to Mr. Rockefeller a
group of coal and copper mining properties, when
asked about tho proposed combination, said: "I
don't know much about it, except when ho gets
tho thing in working shape and springs it on the
public it will take people's breath away. When
ho discloses what he controls in the way of mines
that aro producing real ore ho will make the
mining speculators of tho world wonder whether
they have been awake or asleep for the last ten
years."
THE ITomo College Company has been es
tablished in Chicago. Doctor John M
Driver, pastor of the People's church; Hamilton
White, and Charles H. Northrup aro tho incor
porators,, A Chicago dispatch to ike Cincinnati
Commercial Tribuno says that tho plan of these
gentlemen is "a unlquo reversion of the life in
surance theory for philanthropic purposes." The
plan is explained m this way: "The college will
be an institution in which men and women more
than 60 years old, having purchased scholarships
exactly as if buying life insurance policies, will bo
freed from financial cares and stimulated to an
enjoyraont of their old age by studies along what-
The Commoner,
ever line they choose to take up. Each one will,
by tho fees paid for tho scholarship, purchase a
right to board, room, tuition, lecture, reading
room and library privileges for the balance of this
life, with medical attendance and funeral expenses
after death,"
A STRANGE story is vouched for by the Custer,
S. D., correspondent for the Chicago Tribuno.
Under date of June 6, this correspondent says:
"After lying 36 hours in her coffin, Mabel Fear
ing, tho five-year-old daughter of C. M. Fearing,
was revived. The child was saved through the
intervention df Dr. E. S. Norton, a relative, who
was at the house to attend her funeral. Dr. Nor
ton noted tho rosy cheeks and unchanged appear
ance of the child and refused to permit tho coffin
to bo closed. He called other physicians, and
an effort was made to revive the child. At last
signs of returning animation were noted. Half an
hour later the stethoscope indicated a return of
strong heart action. An hour later the child was
Bleeping in the arms of its mother. With prpper
care the child will soon be in an advanced con
valescent stage."
AN INTERESTING table showing tho numeri
cal strength of the armies of the north and
south has been prepared by Mr. C. G. Lee of Wash
ington. According to the Baltimore Sun, Mr. Lee's
figures show that the total enlistments: in tho
northern army were 2,778,304, as against 600,000
in tho confederate army. The foreigners and ne
groes in the northern army aggregated 680,917,
or 80,917 more than the total strength of the con
federate army. There were 316,421 men of south
ern birth in the northern army.
I
N DETAIL, the figures presented by Mr.
Lee are as follows:
NORTHERN ARMY.
Whites from the north '. ..2,272,333
Whites from the south ...:... 316,424
Negroes 186,017
Indians '.'. :....':.. 3,530
Total ' ". 2,778,304
Southern army 600,000
North's numerical superiority 2,178,304
In the northern army there were: .
Germans 176,800
Irish .'. 144,200
British Americans f 53,500
English r. 45,500
Other nationalities .....' 74,900
Negroes v,. 186,017
Total 680,917
Total of southern soldiers 600,000
Southern men in northern army,..'..."... 816 424
Foreigners .-. 494,900
Negroes . 186,017
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Total 998,613
ARMIES AT THE WAR'S END. "
Aggregate federal army May l,"l865 1,000,516
Aggregate confederate army May 1, 1865.. 133,433
iNumuor in juatue. uonredeiates. Federals.
115,249
87,164
131,661
110,000
95,000
65,000
141,160
270,000
Seven days' fight 80,835
Anuetam ; 35,255
Chancellorsville 57,212
Fredericksburg 78,110
Gettysburg 62,000
Chickamauga 44,000
Wilderness 63,987
Federal prisoners in confederate' nrisnns
Confederate prisoners in federal prisons. 220000
Confederates died in federal prisons 264
i euerals died in confederate prisons 22 570
MORE than 700 persons were killed by light
ning in the United States in 903. A writer
in the Boston Transcript says: "East of the 100th
meridian thunder storms occur all over the coun
try, but west of it, except in the Rocky moun
tains, the frequency of storms diminishes until
on the Pacific coast there aro practically none
The greatest number of storms occurs in Flori
da, in the Middle Mississippi valley and the mid
dle Missouri valley. The greatest number of
deaths in any single state (1896-1J00) was 186
in Pennsylvania. Ohio came next with 135, Ind
iana and Illinois and New York having 124 each
As to the city and country, the more dense the
population the smaller tho rate to the 1000 000
of population. Besides this, tho molal roof's tele
graph wires, etc., of tho cities servo as conductors
Lightning rods, as usually put up, are of no use.'
. .VOLUME 4, NUMBER 23.,
'A tin roof with gutter spouts leading to th.
ground is much more effective. Barns with ciWn
hay seem to invito lightning.' grcen
A GOOD story relating to Charles Darwin is told
by Miss Daisy Leiter, who recently returned
from London. "Two English boys," said Miss
Leiter, "being friends of Darwin, thought one dav
that they would play a joke on him. They caueht
a butterfly, a grasshopper, a beetle and a centi
pede, and out of these creatures they made a
strange, composite insect. They took the centi
pede's body, the butterfly's wings, the grasshop
per's legs and the beetle's head and they glued
them together carefully. Then, with their new
bug in a box, they knocked at Darwin's door
'We caught this bug in a field,' they said. 'Can
you tell us what kind of a bug it is, sir?' Dar
win looked at the bug and then he looked at the
boys. Ho smiled slightly. 'Did it hum when
you 'caught it?' he asked. 'Yes,' they answered
nudging one another. 'Then,' said Darwin, 'it is
a humbug.' "
MANY Nebraskans will remember C. D. Sckra
dor, who for many years was prominent in
populist pdlitical circles in this state. Mr. Schra
der recently died In Seattle. A Seattle newspaper
says: "Cf. D. Schrader, recently of Seattle, but
who for the last year lived in Wenatchee, died at
the hdme of his son, L. O. Schrader, at 1918 East
Fir street, this morning. C. D. Schrader was 59
years old. He was a native of Wisconsin and had
lived in Seattle for a number of years. He was
interested in a number of important real estate
deals in this city, prominent among which was
the buying and platting of Columbfa Heights with
the Darrow Investment company. Five children
survive their father. L. O. Schrader is city com
mittee clerk. Besides the two daughters, Mrs.
W. M. Bowles of. Perry, Okla., and Mrs. Lew Wil
liams of Gandy, Neb., there" are C. M. Schrader of
North Yakima, and R. G. Schrader of Wenatchee."
E AVID J. BREWER, associate justice of the
supreme court of the United States, recent
ly delivered an address In New York on which oc
casion the justice said: "No nation is better than
its sacred book and no nation rises above its
Ideals. The Turks have their Koran, and some
of" its teaching contains high morality, yet how
far short the Turk comes of its fulfillment! China
has the writings of Confucius as its sacred book.
His golden rule is negative while ours is positive.
He says do not. while we say do. There is a
world-wide difference between the two. Live up
to the teachings of Confucius and you may pass
by all sufforing and sorrow, but in the command
ment to do unto others as you would be done by
you must relieve sorrow. The one who brings this
Bible home to the people of the nation is a pa
triot. Too often the soldier is regarded as tho
only patriot. They are patriots, but the man wno
carries the Bible to the people is also a patriot,
and he is doing more for his country than all tho
victors of the battlefields."
AT T H E conference of the African Methodist
Episcopal church at Chicago, May 2, Mr.
Roosevelt's re-election to the presiaency was asked
for in prayer. Bishop W. J. Gaines of Georgia
offered the opening prayer, and said: "God bless
the President of the United States, who has had
the manhood and courage to stand up and do his
duty at all times to men of every color and creed
in spite of bitter criticism. If consistent with
Thy will, O God, when his term of office expires,
send him back to the White House to serve an
other four years." The utterance of this sen
tence was the signal for shouts of "Bless him!"
"Yes, ytss!" "Amen, Amen!"
EVERY one agrees that South American trade
is worth cultivating, and the Chicago Tribune
directs attention to the fact that while Germans
and Englishmen seem to know how to cultivate
it, Americans do not. The Tribuno concludes:
"It ought to be easier to drum up customers m
Argentina or Brazil than in China, but apparently
it is not. There is no difficulty about selling
goods to Mexicans, but there is when It comes to
selling them to Chileans or Venezuelans. Tno
larger trade with Mexico is due to the extension
of the American railroad system into that coun
try, it may be that the Panama canal will stim
ulate commercial intercourse between the Ujutea
States and the states on the west coast of Souia
America, but without the canal that intercourse
should be more extensive than it is. The mow
growth of American trade with the southern aa
of this hemisphere is Inexplicable and a iuB
mortifying."
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