TITE OMATTA DAIT.T lTEE: TFEPTUT, .TFLY 11. 1!0.1.
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; EQUALIZATION 0N MONDAY
i Board Write to Colfax County U Explain
Deeraaia in Credits,
MOST OF COUNTIES SHOW AN INCREASE
l ata I for the Forty-ene far Be
ported la Almost Six nnd a
Half Million Dollars Oter
I.aat War'a Klaares.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
kINCOLN, July 10. Special.) The State
Board of Knuiillzatlon will hold Its first
T-ieetlng next Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock
to equalize between the various counties.
Ho far there are only forty-one counties In,
but the others are expected within the
next few days, a today was the day fixed
by law for the county assessors to report.
A great majority of the counties show an
increase over .the assessment of last year,
while a few show a material decrease. In
this latter class Colfax stands at the head.
Its decrease being $216,740. Of this amount
loJ.Ouu is on unimproved lands. Its notes
secured by mortgages Is returned this year
at a "Valuation of 177,357, while last ear
this same Mem of property was returned
at $274,KS1. All other notes last year were
returned at 133,837, while this year the
Item Is returned at 121,315.. Money on hand
last year was returned at .iS,3M, while
this year It Is returned at a small in
crease, ll,2b2, making It evident that
many of tlio notes were not assessed this
year. The secretary of the board has
written to th3 assessor tor an explana
tion. This year forly-one counties report an
assessment of tU8,t42,2jO, while last year
the same counties vtie ' valued at 1111.591,
1.8, making an increase this year of 16,451,
0",2. A comparative tablo showing the
assessment las. year and this year of
those countius follows:
County. 19.
Adams t 5,0.4 617
lianncr I.s8,il7
Jlox Hutte 1.iu4,7h6
1 trow n t. itivii)
Huffalo OJi.ftHt
;utli;r . E,u:l.Mi
Cass 7,4!..t.4.t7
C'cclar 4.M"4,i!)7
l.'nerry 2,W2,U22
t'lie.enne ... 1.i.(i76
1905.
$ 5.135.N64
198,b6U
7HX,381
5,M,8t,9
7,216,8ir3
4,4:)6,5M8
2.153.94
2.051,360
3,H4..5
6,616,705
4,075.973
2,0"2,(i60
1.378,337
8,ti".48
963.768
3.139.068
6.976, 4W
s49.9iil
4.867.606
1.2:19.649
2.346.472
1.125.8"1
1.750.2X
4,795,5i;i
1.073,581
263.811
2.222.731
2.6H6.981
67.6t
2,599,762
184.823
4,481.264
622.61.8
2.619.0H4
6.961.740
670.931
2,313,601
366.706
844,146
il fax 4,iV.7i
Cuming b,i7.S71
Custer
liakota .
lawes ..
lawson
Ieuel ...
lMxon ...
I'odge ..
iimly ..
Fillmore
Frontier
.,IW,ii23
1.HVU14
3,aS2.17
9M1.9H3
S,3tW.193
6, H2ii.6i 1
825,661
4.8:.142
1.1S6.423
2.241.M3
Furnas
.X.
Gosper 1.0M.224
Ureeley 1,703,843
Hall 4.525.1ci6
Hitchcock -1,058. 634
Hooker 274.338
Howard ... ...... 2.153.960
Kearney ; 2, 638, 269
Keya I'aha 616.146
Knox 8.723,933
logan 175,268
Nemaha , 4,592,854
I'erkins 615,453
I'helpa 2.458.1110
I'latte .... 6,H74.ni8
Rock 664.621
Farpy 3,234.7i6
Fcotts Blttft 734,312
Wheeler 310,611
Dyspepsiaof Women
ABSOLUTELY NEEDLESS AGONY
Cm ted by Uteris Disorder and Cured by
Lydla E. Plakbam'aVtoeUblt Cemyiund
A great many women suffer with a
form of indigestion or ttyspepsla which
' does hot seem' to yield lb ordinary treat
ment. While the symptoms seem to be
similar to those of ordinary indiges
tion, yet the medicines universally pre
scribed do not seem to restore the pa
tient's normal condition.
Alrt.At.Wright
Mrs. Pinkhara claims that there is a
kind of dyspepsia that is caused by a
derangement of the female organ Um,
and which, while it causes a disturb
ance similar to ordinary indigestion,
cannot be relieved without a medicine
which not only acts as a stomach ton to,
but has peculiar uterine-tonie effect
also.
As proof of this theory we call at
tention to the case of Mrs. Maggie
Wright. Brooklyn, N. Y.. who was
completely cured by Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound after every
thing else had failed. She writes :
" For two years I suffered with dyspepsia
which so degenerated my entire system that I
was unable to attend to my dally duties. I
felt weak and nervous, ami nothing that I at
tasted good and it caused a diturtan-e in luy
Stoma.-!!. I tried different dyspepsia cures,
but nothing seemed to help me. I was ad
vised to give Lydia K. Piukhaiu's Vegetable
Compound a trill, and was happily surprised
to find that it acted lika a flue toufc, and in a
few days 1 bote an, to enjoy and properly digest
my food. My recovery was rapid, and in
five weeks I was a well woman. I buys reo
oramendtAi it to many suffering women."
No other medicine in the world has
received such widespread and unquali
fied endbraeiuent.or has such a record of
cures of female troubles, as has Lydia
K. finkhaui's Vegetable Compound.
Use the Best
FULLY GUARANTEED
For any use where good oal is
desired.
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NUT $6.00 LUMP $6.25
All Grade of Hard and Soft Coal.
KEYSTONE COAL AND
SUPPLY CO.,
4. A. Johnson. Pres. O. T. Brucker. Treaa,
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J- . Mrs. fcWc y.
I3i9 Faroam St .. 'Phone 107.
fork S.4t1.v1 .1M.
Total Ull.i91.128 IU8.o4.2iH
Increase W ,451.072
Appoints Hew Dentel Board.
The State Dental board, acting under the
new law, appointed a board of secretaries
this morning as follows: D. M. Meese of
Auburn, for a term of, one year; C. F. Ladd
cf Lincoln, for the term of two years: J. H.
Wallace of Omaha, for the term of three
years; W. T. Bmlth of Geneva, for the term
of four years, and C. B. Parker of Norfolk,
for the term of five years.
Brewer Reappointed.
Oeorge H. Brewer of Smith Omaha was
this morning appointed to succeed himself
as a member of the board of secretaries of
the State Board of Embalmers.
Nebraska Loses Cold Medal.
Tf the citizen of Nebraska who lost a
gold medal presented to J. P. Walsh for
bravery In Jb Sioux Indian war of 1890-91
will communicate with J. J. Knlttel of
Lyons, N. T., he can get his property.
Secretary of State Galusha received this
morning the following letter from Mr.
Knlttel:
Having found medal of Plotix Indian war
of 1W0-91, presented to J. P. Walsh by the
state of Nebraska. I communicate to you
In hopes of locating the owner.
Board Makes History.
The members of the State Board of Equal
ization and Assessment this afternoon held
a session, read over the minutes of the
numerous meetings and then affixed their
signatures to the same. Not a single change
was made Jn the minutes and they are of
record for a time to come.
late Board of Charities.
The State Board of Charities and Correc
tions this morning appointed Brad Cook
and reappointed Mrs. John Wiseman of
Lincoln and A. W. Clark of Omaha mem
bers of the advisory committee. Mr. Cook
succeeds Rev. Seabrooke, who Is a candi
date for the shoes of John Davis, secre
tary to the board. The secretary was not
chosen at this meeting and will not be for
some time.
Board of Health Deadlock.
The State Board of Health took twenty
seven more ballots this morning In trying
to elect a successor to Dr. Somers of
Omaha, a member of the board of secre
taries. The vote stood Just the same as it
did at the other meeting, when 100 ballots
were taken. The candidates Voted upon
were Robert McConaughey of York, J. A.
Andrews of Holdrege and J. C. Sward of
Oakland.
SHORT CIT TO THE PESITESTI ARY
Hold I'P Mil Saturday and Sentenced
Monday.
SIDNEY, July 10. (Special Telegram.)
Quick justice was meted out to Harry
Sanford, a white boy, and Charles Wilson
a negro, both tramps, who held up Ernest
Sablel at his farm, seven miles north of
here, Saturday afternoon. The men were
captured near Colton on the Union Paclflo
railway on Saturday night by a posse and
both were Incarcerated in the county jail.
Sablel had been out picking up coal on
the Burlington right-of-way and on his re
turn home was accosted by the two
tramps, who made him throw up hi
hands. They searched him, taking 12.40
and then threatened to kill Sablel If he
did not produce more. The old German
said he had no more and the tramps ran
sacked the house, but could find nothing.
They bound and gagged him with heavy
ropes and barbed wire and escaped. Sablel
rolled over on the floor, where he had a
big scythe and cut the cords that wound
his hands, pulled oft the gag and called
out to a passing ranchman. The authori
ties were notified here by telephone.
The men had a preliminary examination
before the county judge this afternoon and
offered to plead guilty. District Judge
Grimes was In the city, opened oourt and
sentenced the fellows, to the penitentiary
at hard labor for seven years and they will
be taken to Lincoln tonight.
Lodgepole, eighteen miles east, will be
dry this year. Judge Grimes having sus
tained the appeal of the remonstrances
as against the action of the village board
granting license to John DeBrunner for a
saloon.
wa of Nebraska.
. REPUBLICAN CITY Tent evanretlnHn
meetings, conducted by the Free Methodist
uciiuuiiimiioii, iivb oeen in progress here
mr past. wet-.
BEATRICE The vouns- son nf Ti n -o-
neia whs severeiv lniuren on th. t- an
hand here this afternoon by the explosion
of a cannon firecracker.
OSCEOLA A good, bis; crowd nf n.t.onl.
people and more especially the Daughters
vi nfDPKin went oui to the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Bensa Hester tn Mlahnt. Ur
Hester's birthday. There were ahout ino
present.
BEATRICE Charged with assaulting fh.
young son of C. E. Caldwell with a knife
with intent to do great bodily Injury Harry
Deyo was held to the district court today
ai nis preliminary hearing. He furnished
vuiiu m ins sum ui ouu ana was released.
TEKAMAH-The 1 year and months old
son of John Dill, a farmer living seven
rr.lles southwest of this place, was drowned
in a, irr udi yesieraay rorenoon. Dr
Lukens was called and made the trip in
fifteen minutes with his automobile, but ar
rived too late.
BEATRICE Curtis Price, who Is visiting
In the city, had a narrow escape from
drowning In the Blue river near the mill
dam this afternoon by the capsizing of a
rowboat. He went down In twelve feet of
water and was rescued with nnt riimiii
by three young men who witnessed the ac-
cmem.
OSCEOLA Farmers of Polk county are
cutting their grain between showers. It
has rained elthor day or night for the past
fourteen days and Is still ralnina. Pennk
are anxious for the rain to let up until the
wheat and oats are harvested, wheat and
oats are fine, heads well filled, large berry
and there will be a good yield of grain of all
kinds. Corn looks splendid.
NEBRASKA CITY County Attorney A,
A. Bischof has filed a complaint In the
county court against Henry Catron, Jr., in
wiut-ii vvuiiHm woran alleges mat me de
fendant aided Mike Gardner in the alleged
unlawful transfer of real estate, for which
transaction Gardner Is now under bond to
appear before the district court. Mr. Cat
ron gave bond for his appearance In the
county court on August 7. All of the par
ties Interested are very wealthy capitalists
of this city.
FREMONT There was a large attend
ance at the Chautnuqua yesterday. In the
morning meeting Hon. O. W. Berge of Lin
coln spoke on the subject of "A Higher
Civic Standard." He also spoke In the
afternoon. Jn the evening, after a sacred
concert by the Adelphlan Male quartet,
Adriau Newens read selections from Mrs.
Elizabeth Stewart Phelps' book, "The
Singular Life." The tent was filled with
an audience that paid the closest attention
to the reader. Governor Folk of Missouri
will be here tomorrow afternoon.
PLATT8MOUTII John Wehrbeln. a
young farmer, had a close call from belnjz
crushed to death at the bottom of a thirty-five-foot
well yesterday. The well had re
cently been cleaned, but the water still had
a peculiar taste and Mr. Wehrbeln decided
to go to the bottom to Investigate. He
made the descent with the aid of a rope,
which had been fastened at the top. While
he was at the bottom the stones which
lined the sides commenced to cave tn. Hy
heroic efforts he finally succeeded In reach
ing the top, but In making the ascent he
was repeatedly struck on the head and
shoulders by rocks and other debris and by
the time he gained the surface the well had
filled In to within etaht feet of the top. It
will be some time before he fully recovers
from his injuries.
Cholera Morbus,
Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Flux,
Cholera Infantum and similar
troubles can be quickly and per
manently cured by
WAKEFIELD'S
BLACKBERRY BALSAM.
It's a sure cure and does cot
I constipate. All drug stores.
BIG GIFT FROM R1LPATRICK
Tso Per Cent of Gross Receipts for Week
for T. M. 0. A. Building Fond.
REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE DONATES
Total Anont Received t'n tn Three
O'clock Monday Afternoon la
Over Klftr-Sts Thon
and Dollars.
Including Guy C. Barton's 110,000, the
Young Men's Christian association up to
I o'clock Monday afternoon had collected
fc.6,306 on the 1100,000 which It must get be
fore Sunday In order to cinch the Barton
gift. Monday $4,134 was collected.
Thomas Kilpatrlck & Co. have announced
they will donate to the fund this week 10
per cent of their gross receipts for the en
suing six days. This announcement Is re
ceived with great delight, as It is regarded
a most generous one. Ten per cent of the
gross receipts of this large dry goods es
tablishment will go far toward swelling the
amount to be raised.
Twenty-six real estate men got together
at noon at the Commercial club at the in
vitation of C. C. George, and twelve men
out of this number subscribed 11.235. Many
of those present had already gtven. The
total now subscribed Ay real estate men is
about 12,600.
Following is the standing of the various
divisions of the young men's committee at
t o'clock Monday afternoon:
It. A. StoHe's committee 12.439
F. L. Erlon's committee 2 15
J. H. Wallace's committee 1,245
E. O. Ames' committee 1,1X2
E. C. Henry's committee 35
H. 8. Byrne's committee 7.t6
W. 8. Hlllls' committee 743
T. F. Sturgcss' committee 60
is. ti. Nelson s eommlttee 685
W. E. Johnson's committee 670
Some Volnntary Gifts.
"I want to give So to the good cause,"
said a man who walked Into headquarters.
"Nobody has asked me for any money and
so I thought I'd just come In and dig up.
I only wish It were 17)00 Instead. What I
owe to the association cannot be measured
in money."
One man who left Omaha for his vacation
without having been seen by the soliciting
committee sent back his pledge from an
other city. Another who has of lived in
Omaha for years sent 10. One who had no
money to give expressed his regrets and
sent back a postage stamp In place of the
one used In writing to him.
The association hustlers want It under
stood by the publio that they do not Inten
tionally neglect anyone. If those who are
anxious to give and who have not been ap
proached will telephone to campaign head
quarters. 6274. committees will be sent to
take their subscriptions.
A Jollification meeting was held Sunday
afternoon at the association rooms. I. W,
Carpenter was in charge and speeches were
made by F. L. Willis, C. 8. Ward, H. H,
Baldrlge, B. C. Wade and J. P. Bailey. Sat
isfaction was expressed that the half-way
mark had been passed before the beginning
of the last week, It having been fully ex
pected at the start that $50,000 would be left
for the last six days. The amount of $48,700
Is to be secured this week In order to get
Guy C. Barton's conditional subscription of
$10,000. There was no doubt In the minds
of the speakers that it would be raised.
NATIONAL MEETINGS AT FAIR
Doctors and Food Commissioners Are
Holding; Sessions at the Port,
land Exposition.
PORTLAND. Ore.. July 10. The Amer
ican Medical association oommenced a flv-
day convention in Portland today. Dele
gates from all parts of the United States
to the number of several hundred were
present and speakers of national promi
nence In the medical world are on the pro
gram for speeches and for conducting
clinics. The American Medical Editors' as
sociation, an auxiliary to the American
Medical association, also began Its annual
session today. Addresses will be made by
prominent editors and physicians.
The National Association of Dairy and
Food Departments convened at the Lewis
and Clark exposition today. The program
for the week Includes addresses and pa
pers on almost every phase of subjects
coming under jurisdiction of food depart
ments of the various states.
DEATH RECORD.
John Shelby.
TACOMA. Wash., July lO.-John Selby, a
veteran of the Mexican and civil wars,
died today after a lingering Illness, aged
87 years. Mr. Selby served under General
Zachsy y Taylor in the battle of Buena
Vista, and later was with the United
States troops operating In northerj Mexico.
He was given special work by the govern
ment, and In recognition of his services
received a personal letter of thanks from
President Abraham Lincoln. The remains
will be sent to Jacksonville, 111., his former
uome, jor interment.
Cyrns g. Phillips.
TECUMSEH. July . 10. (Sneclal Tl.
gram.) Cyrus 8. Phillips, an old settler
and well-known citizen, died here tMa
evening of a complication of kidney and
neart trouble, he was ajied 73 vears h
was born in Richland, N. T., and later
moved to Waukegan county, Illinois, with
his parents. He was married there to Ml
Abble Childs In 1856, and the wife and
one daughter survive him. He came to
Johnson county in 1S70 and with the excep
tion of two years has lived here.
Henry M. Mendell.
MILWAUKEE. July 10. Henrv M Men
dell Is dead at his home In this cltv aa-ed
66 years. He was for a long time president
or the riortn American Baengerbund.
Narrow Kscape
from poisoning, caused by constipation, had
Mrs. Young, Clay City, N. T. Dr. King's
New Life lills cured her. 26c. For sale by
Sherman & McConnell Drug Co.
Killed by the Cars.
PLATTSMOUTH. Neb., July 10.-(Spe
clal.) Coroner Boeck was called to South
Bend yesterday to hold an Inquest over the
remains of Henry Hofmelster, who was
killed early yesterday morning by a Rock
Island train. So far as known no one wit
nessed the accident' which occurred two
miles south of South Bend. Hofmelster
was a gardener by occupation and was
40 years of age. He has a wife and several
grown children, but for some time they
had been living apart. The coroner's Jury
exonerated the railroad company from
blame for the accident.
Gasollan Engine nn Binder.
CENTRAL CITY. Neb., July 10.-(8pe-cial
) C. L. Powell, a farmer west of this
city. Is experimenting with a gasoline
binder. Mr. Powell has attached a three
horse power gasoline engine to a ten-foot
header binder. In a trial yesterday he
ran bis binder through soft ground covered
by six Inches of water, without trouble;
at times the binder would sink to the
hubs In mud and water. Those who wit
nessed the trial are satisfied that Mr.
Powell can cut grain whsn an ordinary
binder would mire down.
First nf Wheat Oon.
BEATRICE. Neb., July 10.-8pecial
Telegram.) The first of this year's crop of
wheat was marketed here today. It was
of excellent quality, testing (t"ri pounds;
yield, thirty bushels to the act
OUR LETTER I3X
la the Same of Jnatlre.
OMAHA. July 10 To the Editor of The
Bee: I with a friend, John K. Itrsun, was
unavoidably a witness last evening to an
unprovoked and murderous assault by a
person said to be John Ender, a milkman
living near the Burt street waterworks
stations, on an unprotected colored youth.
who, so far as we could see, was enjoying a
bath on the I. C. A L. company right-of-way.
In detail I Vtll add that about 6:30 p. m.
John Larson and myself were coming from
the east to the west on the I. C. A L.
track. When about 600 feet from the curve
near the settling basin we saw three colored
boys In bathing. All of the boys had on
pants and their shirts and caps were near
the tracks on the bank. They were deport
ing themselves In a quiet and orderly way,
Yyir
"IIow much civil war are the labor union leaders trying to push this country
Into?" someone asked.
Sometimes a man starts what he thinks will be a small Are, but It reaches In
flammable materials and spreads beyond his control. The man that starts It Is
responsible for the dnmnfre.
Colorado had a stajrgerlnK dORe of It Pan Francisco, Omaha, St. Louis and
ChlcHgo have had bitter experiences.
Every little hamlet where labor union strikes are called Immediately begins
to cast alxnit for protection to life, limb and property.
The spirit of labor unionism rampant seems to turn peaceable citizens to
demons. 1'eace officers are sneered at and attacked, law derided and defied, riot,
anarchy and Incipient civil war forced upon the jieople.
These atrocities seem to be extended as far as possible until the common
people are compelled to raise a strong restraining hand and command and enforce
law and peace.
This Is not an opinion, but a fact forced upon ua by the acts of labor unions.
How far they would push these acts of civil war, If given the full measure of
power they seek, is a matter of opinion which each man's observation will help
form.
Every reasoning man shrinks at the thought that any day may bring the
strike, violence, misunderstanding, bate and bloodshed to his own town or hLs own
door and wrap him in its meshes.
Every workman fears the day when some Union "leader" clothed with author
ity and secretly grafting and dissipating on the union men's money may order
bim Into Idleness with the penalty of the hospital or the grave If he does not
obey and every workman's wife hopes for peace, but dreads the conditions that
niay be suddenly fastened upon her and her little household.
The Merchant fears the strike for it often means ruin, and the common
citizen Is forced Into scenes of Incipient civil war by the rioting mobs Incited by
labor unions.
We have oil, beef, steel and other trusts on one hand and numerous labor
trusts on the other. The capital trusts attack the pocketbook and the labor trusts
attack the person and property. Between the two the common people suffer ,
endure and pay the bills for the entire cost of the warfare, increased cost of
necessities, cost of guards, policemen, sheriffs, militia, army, judges, court costs,
etc., etc.
These strikes are far reaching to the common people. For Instance a strike
lu the building trades conies and the railroads must discharge gome of their
employes for there Is less lumber, lime, steel, stone; brick, etc., etc., to draw, then
some teamsters must be luid off, then, many steel -workers, coal miners, lumber
men, brickmakers, quarrymen and stonecutters, machinists, glass-workers, and
scores of other artisans have their living taken from them, often bringing hunger
and suffering to innocent men, women and children. Then the man with money
says: "It's too much trouble and expense to build, with all the clashing of the
various unions; you no sooner settle with one union when another goes on strike,
nnd the worry, loss, and many Indignities make life a burden," so he keeps his
money out at Interest; literally hundreds of millions of "prosperity" here and
ready for the people has been choked off In the past 2 years.
Every day's labor lost Is lost forever.
We must look tacts squarely In the face In seeking a remedy.
We see that employers do not stop lnduntry, stone the street cars, throw them
off the track, assault and murder motor-men and conductors, assault workmen,
close factories and keep the common people from their usual privileges and
methods of earning a living. Labor trust leaders arrogate to themselves the right
to do these things and tbijg oppress the people.
Such acts are frequently done contrary to the wishes of a majority of the
peaceful members of the unions. Inconvenience, loss of money, property or
wages Is bad enough, but what hurts to the heart's core and what rouses the man
hood of the man in vehement protest, is the binding of manacles on the arms of
our brother American citizens, subjecting them to slavery under union leaders
and assaulting and murdering them when they are trying to earn a living for
their wives and babies. Good authorities say from 70 to 1)0 out of 100 Chicago
leamsters did not want to strike. They were satisfied with good wages and good
Jobs. But a leader or two with an object In mind "ordered" it and. as one team
ster says, "what could the men do? If we kept our Jobs we wouldn't get to
State street with a load until there would be a mob yelling 'scab' and the bricks
and Btone flying; Its either quit or go to the hospital or worse."
That is slavery pure and simple.
So we see the power of organization placed In the hands of a few designing
men and that power enough to gather the inflammable dangerous people Into mobs
nnd defy the civil government established and relied on by the people for their
protection.
This dangerous condition Is encouraged by what some call the "Daily
Assassin," the "Murderers Advocate," alias the Yellow Journal, and some socialist
and anarchist labor papers whose artful, criminal-minded writers, color, twist and
misstate facts, always denouncing the man who pays money to support workmen,
whether he be right or wrong, always urging the wage-earner to hate his work, to
hate his employer, hate the laws, the peace officers, the government and the flag.
A union man was arrested in Chicago for complicity In some of the criminal
civil warfare put upon the people. A writer for the Yellow Journal Interviews
the family and announces In heavy type:
"I'm glad my husband mutters for his Union."
"Happy home robbed of its loyal head, visited and described."
"I wish my papa would come home, It's so awful lonesome without him," one
child says.
"Papa gone. Tapa way off, me want papa," from the baby.
Then follows account of how the father used to play with the children, but
now the mother "weeps In the desolate little home, where all Is loneliness and
suffering brought on by the order of the powerful U. S. Judge." "Oh. it is so
cruel" said the wife, "It Is a terrible thing to take a man like my husband away
from his family." (In reality he was confined a few days In a hotel and not sent
to Jail). "But I'm glad my husband can suffer for his Union," and a column more
of "agony" mostly made up by the artful writer.
The eyes of a sympathetic workman glare with rage when he reads such skill
fully worded articles, purposely Intended to Inflame him to a point of frenzy.
"To hell with the laws. Judges, and police that oppress the people."
.Out on the street he goes, an unreasoning fury and maniac, ready to riot, burn
and murder.
Daily Injections of the poison of the "Yellow Journal" change the former
thrifty, upright citizen Into a criminal and force hiin to sure destruction.
lbs "flurderers Advocate" Is a riot maker and constructor of criminal;
to the limit of Its ability.
Note Its demoniacal art, how it works up sympathy and inflames passion b;.
coloring and distorting the facts of this arrest, which was a wise, Just, aud unde.
he circumstances, most lenient act, in defense of the commoa psop
to preserve them from the violence of these lawbreakers and rioters. The im
pulsive, prejudiced workman is fed daily upon this mawkish, sentimental, poison
ous gush; the criminals, petted, cuddled, and held Aip as martyrs and heroes,
utterly Ignoring the helpless children made fatherless, not by the fathers
being temporarily detained in a hotel, but by the beating, maiming or murder
ngof over 501) fathers and brothers by the labor unions lu the one strike in Chicago.
Large merchants up until recently hav contributed great sums of money paid
in advertlslig in these papers that are open enemies of law and order. Dearly
have they naid for it in Chicago.
But while these rich merchants have suffered Ions, what about the common
leople, the man trying to find food for bis little family, the union man working
contrary to "orders" or the plain American thinking he had a right to earn bread.
Observe the sickening sentiment worked up by the Yellow Journal over a
union man restrained from working bis violence on other citizens and compare It
with the awful facts which scar the page of history and bow the proud head of
lilierty to shame, while her arms are stretched forth in mute appeal for vengunce
and justice lor tiie murder or iur cuiiuren
Four men carried a stretcher with
stained sheet, and when the front door of the little home was reached a scream of
anguish and deiair rose from the wife "God help mcl W'nat have ttwy done
to my poor man?" and lifting back the sifted sheet from the face of her
husband sue saw mat race, iiihck lu muuy places, me swuiit-n immut- uuukiuk
out and blood freely coursing from the mouth, one eye partly out of its socket,
and the thick hair matted with blood oozing troui a deep hole in the head.
Little Mary, 7 years old, came timorously to-see and t.ald: "Is that papa,
mamma? Who, did that to my peps?" tears coming fust when she realized.
"Papa wuke up and let Mary help you wash your face, it's so dirty." But papa
couldn't wake up.
When the poor beaten body was placed In the front room the weeping mother
plead with the men to hasten for a doctor, but was told there was no use for the
doctor said an hour ago that he was dead. Oh, what can 1 do, where can I get
i'cip" and with moans, beside herself with the shock and grief, she plead for her
dead to come back to life.
The one glassy eye gave no response and the life current flowed steadily on
from the 3-cornered hole under the clot tod hair. "Ob Is there a God in Heaven
thst will let such things be done anJ the murJersrs to free!"
Then turoiug she said: "l have been frightened most to death every day
since Ed. took that Job, but he had to do something for he had been out of work
for a long time and we had no money. He used to belong to the I'nloa, but they
lined him $." for something and he didn't have the money to pay It so they put
him out and wouldn't let him take a job anywhere. We would have moved
away to oome little town where he could get work without being hounded by the
Union, but we hadn't the money to go on. So when this strike came he was
offered a team to drive and guaranteed protection. We had to have bread and
meat sud that was the only way we could get it. The first day's wages brought us
something to eat and w were hungry, 1 tell you. But I have been afraid every
merely remarking as we accosted them that
the water was cold. Iirsnn snd I then
passed on and side-stepped to let a freight
train pass. As It did we sgaln took the
track and met a man said to be John Ender
carrying a double-barreled shotgun. 1
asked him If he was going gunning. If he
answered I don't remember, but almost
Immediately after passing I heard him ex
claim, "Oct out of there or I'll kill you." I
looked around and saw him raise his gun
and shoot. Then he raised It again, with
an oath, and fired the second time. I saw
the colored boy In the water raise one
arm as If to protect his face.
About the time of the second shot a
woman, whom I took to be his (Enrter's)
wife, caught his arm as he was trying to
load and said. "My God, John, we have
more troubles than we want now." The
party then tried and I holleve did strike the
colored boy, as he had by this time gotten
out of the water. After the gun was taken
away from the shooter he said ha only shot
to scare the boy and did not hit him. As
I saw no blood on him I started In to town
our brothers yours ana mine.
something on It covered with a blood
and was overtaken by the boy st Ninth and
Davenport streets, and he then showed me
his wounded arm and back. I then told the
boy I would go to the station and was
there making complaint when the boy came
In.
I write this so that the colored boy may
be placed under the protection of being In
the right and committing no wrong.
R. D. DUNCAN.
KSS Davenport Street.
la It a Prnacrlptlve Society.
OMAHA. July in -To the Editor of The
Bee: When making an appeal In The Sun
day Bee In behnlf of the Young Men's
Christian association were you aware that
Catholics are debarred from full member
ship In that association? It seems to me
you were not or you would never appeal
to all classes end creeds to help an asso
ciation that stands for such narrowness.
J. T. SMITH.
Lynch Flies Motion,
Paymaster John U. Lynch, U.S.A., through
his attorneys. Kennedy & Learned, has
day that something awful would happen. Yesterday I heard a man say to
another: "There's where the d scab lives, somebody ought to bum the
house," and the other one said, "no, let Mike's gang do him, that's Just as good."
Some of the school children threw stones nnd chased my Mary home and the
little thing dropped to the floor In fright. I couldn't let hrr go any more and
we've stayed close in the house ever since.
"Where we can go now or.what we can do God only knows," and sinking
down beside the mangled corpse the stricken widow folded little Innocent Mary to
her heart and silently prayed to Ood for help, that was all she could do, an the
men turned and left the picture which bore the red seal of the "entertainment
committee" of a labor Union.
A poor girl was trying to help support her mother and unable to get other
work took a position as pressfeeder. She was escorted home by policemen to
protect her from hyenas of the Franklin I'resnfeeders Union. One night she
risked going home alone because the policemen were not there. Within two
blocks of the works she was attacked by the union men, dragged Into an alley and
when they had finished with her and applied the union label she was found un
conscious, one eye gouged out and her left breast completely torn off.
One of God'g creatures, reconstructed by the "labor union" striving to force
employers to hire their members alone and force all others to starve while a com
plaisant public and a cowardly press look on. This is the present plan lu
America, under the management of the "labor trust" and vote-hunting officials.
An aged woman hobbled on her cane up the steps of a city hospital enquiring
for her boy.
He lay pale and helpless on a cot, but greeted the dear old face tenderly.
"Oh my poor boy" was all the trembling old lips could utter, a the knotted
fingers that had toiled many years for that boy sought to stroke his hair.
Briefly and faintly he told her how the Union men had struck him down
with bricks, and when lying half conscious one man kicked htm in the head and
face and another Jumped repeatedly on his stomach, breaking and tearing apart
some of his Intestines- and the doctors gave him only a few hours to live. -
"I am so glad you came, mother dear," he whispered, I am going to see
father and you will come soon." A deathlike faintness stilled his voice and
closed his eyes. The patient old mother sat by her boy until the twilight came
and the lengthening shadows told of the nearby depnrture of he light of day.
when with a faint smile aud gasped "goodbye" the sunlight of her day passed
out Into the beyond leaving her feeble nnd alone on a wide sea without compass,
chart or help.
There may be a "tender God somewhere that, unknown to the rest of us
reaches down to help those crushed and destroyed by the sluggers and murderers
In labor unions. But that crippled old mother, with her gray head bowed over
the broken body of the boy God had allowed her to bring into this world, un
broken and perfect, printed on the minds of everyone who saw it, a deeply en
graved picture of the "Union label" they will never forget.
Over 500 human beings beaten, maimed or murdered by Union men during
the Chicago strike.
What for? Because they were free Americans and felt that they bad a right
to earn food for themselves and little ones. But the labor trust says: "All work
Is for us and no one else shall work." So murder Is done to force every citizen
to obey the orders of the labor trust. Men have a right to quit work when not
suited. From whence comes their right to murder dur American citizens seeking
bread? (
. . . ...
Are these examples the only aets done in the name of "unionism?" Multiply
them by ten thousand and you will not cover the tyranny and terror of Jeers, In
sults, threats to workmen, police, lawyers, officials, Judges and statesmen, the
dally meanness and outrage to the independent man working alongside the union
man, the bolts loosened and. cables cut to make the derrick fall and kill. The
scaffolds and ladders partly sawed to murder. The houses, factories and mines
dynamited, the cars derailed to kill people, the holes cut in the bottom of vessels,
water poured Into moulds so they would burst and throw hot moulten Iron over
the Independent workmen. Men pushed off roofs, docks and scaffolds, women
and men followed by outlaw members of the "entertainment committee" and
assaulted and murdered, people under subjection and slavery to the labor leaders.
They repeatedly demand subjection of our public officials, even the Fresldeut
himself, to their orders.
But the slavery Is so galling to the common people, Including many union
men, that citizens now demand a return of their freedom.
A set of resolutions signed by a mass of It. It. workmen has been lately
received expressing thanks for the efforts to help the Unions clean out the loud
mouthed criminals who have gained control In many cases. Another letter of
thanks comes on the letter head of the Order of Hallway Conductors and many
Individual letters from honest Union men express the hope that the campaign
against crime will enable the peaceable and upright members of the Unions to
gain control of them.
The public are not opposed to organization by workmen for beneficial pur
poses. But when those organization's are used for violence, lawbreaklog and
oppression the public demand that they be cleansed and cleansed quickly or
forced Into the background. The universal denunciation by the public Is work
ing for ultimate good. It must lie continued fearlessly and the power of organiza
tion brought to bear for the evil is tenacious and the blackmailing, violent men
in charge will not give way easily.
e e
The deep rumble and murmer of the coming storm has at last awakened the
sleeping giant, and the common people now propose to place the money trusts on
one side of the road, the labor rtusts on the other, aud leave the highway ol
progress clear for Its rightful owner. There will be no attempt to destroy either
mouey or labor trusts so long as they are lawfully conducted, but we, the com
mon people, propose to prevent any trust or organization from stopping our R. K.
or street cars, steamboats, carriage or truck lines, manufacturing or other In
dustries, Interfering with personal liberty or Insulting, assaulting or murdering
American citizens, whether Independent, Union, White, Black, Brown or Yellow.
This movement by citizens organiztug for defense, means the power of thi
great public, the 7S0 out of the 800 (statistics show aliout 20 union men in everj
NtO citizens) massed protect the merchant from boycott, the union man from
tyranny either by labor leaders or money trusts, the transportation companlei
from having their cars or trains stopped, the factories from being shut down,
nd the individual common American from any Interference with his constltu
ional Inherited liberty. S
The time has come when the people propose to again take control and govern
'i.fely, wisely and In accordance with the law handed down to us as the ripened
i-.perlnce of our ancestors.
Rememlier that during strike excitement, the stars and stripes grow dim In
the minds of many and the red rag of anarchy takes form. You see the hint,
and often more than hint. In nearly every strike.
When the sweet, strong crash of the brass nnd the roar and snarl of the drum
blends the sturdy, rhythmic tramp, tramp, tramp of army brogans, planted
steadily to the front by feet that don't know how to walk backwards; and when
the blue sleeves touch shoulders with their mates nnd the grim, steel-topped col
umns of Uncle Sam's soldiers swing Into line, a cool little thrill stiffens the back,
glitters In the eye and tingles to the finger tips of every thoroughbred American.
It's the call of your forebears, it's the. twang on your heart strings by tin
spirit fingers of your grand dad, my boy, and his soul tells to your soul "that
baud of blue is your Inherited weapon of defense."
"It Is system, organization and power and the flag at the front stiffens In the
breeze to show you an emblem, a perpetual remembrance of the best gift of God
to man Human Liberty. We were robbed of that gift many years ago, but won
it back and the sacred right was handed down to you. Tyrants will arise from
time to time anil press you bard. Anarchists will proclaim 'to hell with the flag.
It's nought but a rag and would better be & red one.' You may be forced to gtve
up money, property, home or friends in your struggle If you let tyrants grow too
strong before you act."
"But keep the old flag nailed to the mast, aud whether In calm it enfolds the
pole, or lu fierce storm It snaps crisp aud bold, place your eyes there; bare the
bead and reverently thank Almighty God you have a token of his gift."
In assuming the duties of l'resideut of the National Citizens Industrial Asso
ciation with its various allied associations. It Is my hope to help unify aud amal
gamate citizens, placing In their hands the power of organization, to meet organ
ized oppression with superior strength, and it shall be my earnest, unchaugeable
purpose to direct that strength only for defence and Justice
To the Vuiou man this pledge is offered: We will earnestly stand by, support
and help him against the tyranny and slave driving of labor trust leaders or In
justice by employers and the capital trusts.
I am an ojeu advocate of hlKh wages a -id an S hour workday, and will sup
port peaceful methods which do not oppress others in bringing tlietn ubout.
But the Union man aud all others must remember the Citizens Ass'n Is for
the defence ol liberty, and In order to obtain Its support the individual must him
self sbstaln from tyranny over his brother.
When the Eternal Father gave to bis children this beautiful America, fitted
hy the deftness of his, own hand for cradling the highest type of that being,
"made In the likeness and Image of God," He gave that being air to breathe,
which vitalizes freemen, but stifles tyrsnts.
With that gift came the Father's deep-toned injunction to each son, "You
are your brother's keeper."
C. W. I'OST.
N. B. This space is owned and paid for by C. W. Post, under contract, ne
uses like space in every paper in America where he has similar contracts. This
article Is one of a series of what he calls "a campuign for industrial peace,"
with oppression for none, with freedom for aV
filed a motion In the district court that
the receivers of the Capital Pivlnss bank
of Washington, I. t , be compelled to
file srrurltv for costs In the suit they have
brought aaiilnst Mm In Dousins county
lit imn rr vermin rnim ni iiioiiey. ,tir,
Lynch wss st one time president of the
Washington bank ami Is alleged to have
borrowed a considerable amount of money
which Is still die.
NEGRO TRIES J0 CUT OFFICER
Whips Out Knife nnd Three Police
men Are Required to Ron
Hint Dona,
When Officer WooMrldere attempted tn
arrest Billy Fremont, colored, at Thir
teenth and Opltol avenue Monday after
noon, as a susphioua character, the negro
whipped out a big knife and began slash
ing at the policeman, who In turn fired
several shots In the air. These attracted
Detectives Dvummy and Maloney to the
scene and, Joining Wooldrldge, the de
tectives gave chase, finally catching the
negro, whom they lodged In the cltv Jnil.
