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After Inventory Clearance Specials of Intense Economical Interests
Linens, Sheetings, Bed Spreads, Efc.
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High Grade Wash Goods Dept.
Everything in this department almost cut in two. Every yard must go,
no matter, what it will bring. Over 10,000 full pieces of entirely new Wash
Goods never opened before on sale Monday.
Table Llnrn 72-inch bleached Irish Linca,
double satin finish, our own Importations,
all new designs at, yard, $3.98, $J.50.
$1.50. $1.26 and 98
Table Linen 68 and 72-lnch unbleached and
silver bleached German, Scotch and Irish
linen, extra heavy; new patterns at, yard,
$1.60, $1.25, 98c, 85o and G5
Tatfem Cloths--All sizes for either round or
square tables. Scalloped or plain edge,
double satin finish, Irish linen at, piece,
$15, $12.50, $10, $8.50, $6.50, $6. $3.75
and $3.25
Napkins to Match All linen. 18x18 to 37x27
Inch at corresponding low prices.
Sheets 81x90 Bleached Seamless Sheets,
extra heavy, made from a well-known brand,
worth 90o piece at, piece 65
Pillow Cases 42x36 inches, extra fine mus
lin, sell regular at 16c; only three to a
customer at, piece . 12 H
Bed Spreads In Marseilles and honey comb
pattern, cut or square corners, full slse at,
each, $12.60, $10, $9, $7.60, $6.60, $5.
$3.98, $3.60, $2.76.. $2.60 and $2.00
Towels Extra all linen huok Towels, 22x46
Inches, bleached, sell regular at 60o piece
at, piece 25
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SILK WARP CJOODS.
Al) Arnold's 60c and 69c silk warp organdies,
all McClay'a 50c and 69c silk warp ginghams,
all Oaly & Lord's silk warp ginghams none
sold for less than 60c yd. all, at, yd. . 25
80c WASH GOODS, 19c
Silk tissues, silk mulls, silk ginghams, silk
organdies all 39o goods, yard. 19
S5c AND 2!c GOODS, 12 He.
Arnold's 26c silk tissues. 25c shirting m ad'
ras, 25c Scotch ginghams and other fine
goods worth up to 29c yard all at,
yard 12 H
15c AND 10c WASH GOODS, 10c YARD.
French batiste, French organdies, Carreant
Odellas and other goods all at. yard. 1Q
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 7, 1907
THE nCUADLC STORE.
Monday is the Great Lace and
Swiss Curtain Sale
In our up-to-date Drapery Section. All our discontinued pat
terns at less than half actual value. See our windows.
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Silks Silks Silks
Another of our famous Black Silk Sales, Monday, July 8th. We bought
"our Black Silks before the sharp advance in prices and will sell them Monday
at and, in some cases, even below present factory prices.
$1.75 C. J. Bonnet 80-inch Taffeta The best
quality, at $1.15
$1.25 O. J. Itonnet 27 Inch Dress Taffeat On
sale at 75
$1.00 Chiffon Dress Taffetas 27 inches wide;
on sale 58
$1.25 Kwiss Dress Taffctaas 36 Inches wide;
sale price 80
$1.00 bkirting Taffetas 27 inches wide; on
sale at 69
50c Dress Taffetas 19 Inches wide; on sale
at 39
Several Thousand Yards of IMaln and Fancy
Silks Worth In a regular way up to $1.00
yard; will be on sale Monday In our great
domestic room.n one lot at, yard. . .29
The best opportunity ever offered to buy
high grade silks at splendid cash saving.
Irish Point, in white or ecru,
also red and green applique
worth from $5 to $7.50 a
pair, at, each $1.25
Novelties, Cable Net, Irish
Point and Tambour Muslin,
worth $3.98 pair, each 89c
Barnett Curtains, worth to
$1.50 pair, at, each. . .49c
Nottingham and Ruffled
Swiss Curtains at, ea., 39c
Cable Net, Fish Net, Novel
ties, worth $3 pair, Monday
at, each 75c
Ruffled Swiss, Nottingham,
Ruffle Net Curtains, in white
or ecru, worth $3.25 pair, at
each 89 c
Barnett Lace Curtains, 48
inches wide, 3 yards long;
also Ruffled Swiss at,
each 25c
Popular Priced Wash Goods in our Great Domestic Room
0.5c printed batiste 8Hc
15c printed dotted Swiss. 8
15c fine dimites 7Ho
19c whtte dotted Swiss.. 7Hc
9-4 good sheeting 10c
10c bleached muslin. .. .6 94c
8 Vic unbleached muslin... 5c
69c unbleached sheets. .. .89c
$1 bleached sheets 65c
25c towels 12Hc
19c towels lOo
towels 6 94c
12c towels 5c
$1 fine bleached linen. . . .67c
35c fine bleached linen. . .59c
76c fine bleached linen. . .87c
$2.60 linen napkins. .. .$1.89
$2 linen napkins $1.19
$1.60 linen napkins 96o
$1.25 linen napkins 75o
$1 linen napkins 59c
Dollies, 12 He, 10c, 7 Vic, 6c
and 2Vc
ODD LOTS TO CLOSE.
25 pieces 15c batiste. . . .294c
1,000 yards apron checks 2 He
100 pieces of A. F. C dress
gingham 5c
60 pieces fine white dotted
Swiss 5c
10,000 yards mill ends, vari
ous lengths, to close, yd. .1c
Linings, all colors, up to 35c
yard 5c
American prints, short lengths
t 2,c
86-inch percales 5c
36-inch mndras "c
6c wash Tos lc
10c cotton bats 5o
Mosquito bar 8 Ho
White goods, various kinds,
. up to 25c, yard. 5c
KO DEALKKS.
Grand Inventory Sale
We have just finished invoicing and find
several stocks too heavy for this time of year.
We are going to reduce this surplus quickly
if we have to cut the price in less than half.
For Monday we will begin on the Embroidery
stock.
First Lot Embroideries, worth to 4o yard,
will got at lc
Second Lot Embroideries, worth to 7c yard,
will go at .-..2 ViC
Third Lot Embroideries, worth to 12o yard,
on sale at 5c
Fourth Lot Embroideries, worth to 20c yard,
on sale at 7C
Fifth Lot Embroideries, worth to 25o yard,
sale price 10c
Sixth Lot Embroideries, worth to SOo yard,
sale price' 12VaC
Seventh Lot Embroideries, worth 35c yard,
on sale at 15c
Special Sale of Ribbons and Zion City Laces
Monday
kn Inventory Clearance of Women's Garments
That after the Fourth $1.00 will do the work of $2 to $4 on ordinary cases was clearly demonstrated Saturday and Mon
day's bargains are more numerous and really superior to those of Saturday. Greatest Silk and Wool Suit Bargains ever offered.
$15 and $18 Silk
Suits, just 50 in
this lot, choice,
Monday. . $6.95
$25 and $35 Wool
Suits, 115 beauti
ful suits to choose
from at $15
$12.50 and $15 Silk
Ooats, choice of
50 handsome gar
ments, Monday,
at $4.95
$2 Lawn Waists on
sale Monday 95c '
Dainty Wash Suits, worth to $5, in ginghams, madras or lawn,
made Peter Pan or shirt waist styles, on sale at ..... .$1.98
$10 and $15 Dresses, in fine linens, mulls and lingerie, on sale
in two lots, at $4.95 and , $6.95
Children's Dresses, worth to $4.00, Monday in four lots, at tiDo,
98c, $1.50 and $1.98
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Women's Waists,
worth $1.50, at,'
choice . . . .'.49c
$4 Jap and Net
Waists, on sale at,
each . . . .$1.50
$5 and $6 Lingerie
Waists, choice
Monday at 2.98
Special Sale of Ki
monos Monday.
510.00 Skirts, in
voiles, .' taffetas,
panamas, etc.
made extra wide
and trimmed with pleats, folds and bands of taffeta, choice
Monday $4.95
$6.00 Silk Underskirts at $3.98
From 8 Till 9 A. M. Women's Lawn Kimonos 15c
From 9 Till 10 A. M. Children's Wash Dresses, size 1 to 4 yrs.,
at i.lOc
Men's Shirts ; Hoisery
Most wonderful bargains In high grade summer
garments. You'll not find quality and variety dupli
cated elsewhere at the prices.
Men's Shirts Worth to $1.00, with laundered collars,
soft collars or collar bands, soft or pleated bosoms,
In blue chambrays, percales, fine madras, etc. In
entory'sale price, 69c and 47
Men's Soft Summery Shirts Made to sell up to $5.00,
In China silk, silk and linen, mobalr and finest im
ported madras, all have soft collars; sale prices,
$2.98, $1.98, $1.60 and 08
Men's Howe Worth to 25c, In blacks, tans and fancies,
many silk embroidered hose In the lot at,
choice, 12 He, 10c and 5
Matting and Wool Rugs
For furnishing for the summer months nothing is
cooler, prettier or more sanitary than the handsome
mattings and matting rugs so popular today. See
these special bargains Monday.
26x72 matting rugs, $1.50 values, at 75
6x9 ft. matting rugs, $4.00 values, at $2.98
36x72 Axminster Rugs, $5.00 values, at $2.08
27x54 Axminster rugs, $3.00 values, at S1.5J
27x54 velvet rugs, $2.00 values ,at $1.10
Fiber matting, sewed and laid like carpet, 65c yard
value, at 30
Ingrain carpet samples lhi yard long,' 75c values,
at r 10
Have You Purchased Lawn and Porch
Furniture?
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If not, you should certainly look
over our splendid line, the very best
assortment and lowest prices. Pay
ment on all furniture purchases can
be made to suit your convenience.
Lawn .ikei, Arm Chairs, Camp
Chairs, Stools, Porch Swings, Lawn
Hwings, etc.
Bent Wood Lawn Seat, like cut, 3 ft."
$2.25; 4 ft., $2.50; 5 ft, $2.95 and 6
ft $3.95
The Go-Cart of Today Is the Folder
We carry all styles, in very best
makes. Folding Go-Cart, like cut,
10-in. rubber tire wheels, strong steel
frame, special Monday at. . . .$1.50
Hundreds of Other Special Bargains Monday
Groceriesl
Groceries!
Groceriesl
Hayden's, the Greatest Grocery Dept. in Omaha. Freshest Goods,
highest Quality, Largest Stock and Lowest Prices Always.
SI pound bast par can Granulated
agar for 91.00
12 bars best family Laundry Soap.... 26c
Large sacks best white or yellow Corn
meal .4 ioc
The best Soda Crackers, per lb 6c
The best crisp Ginger Snaps, lb 5c
Jell-O, Jelljrcon, DeZerta, per pkg....7Hc
Oil or Mustard Sardines, per can . . . . S Vio
1-lb.cans fancy Ked Alaska Salmon.. 12 Vo
t-lb cans Boston Baked Beans 7 Ho
J-lb. cans Golden Pumpkin, Hominy or
Squash 7 Ho
6 lbs. choice Japan Rice 2fiQ
1 -lb. package Macaroni SUc
Egg-O-See Toasted Corn Flakes, pkg..6c
The best'Tea tlftlngs, per lb 12Hc
Fancy Santos Coffee, per lb ....15c
Fancy B. F. or Bun Dried Japan . Tea, per
pound 25o
Fancy Combination Blend for Ice Tea, per
pound 36c
BUTTEB, CHEESE AWD EGOS
Strictly No. 1 fresh Eggs, per dor... 15c
Fancy Country Butter, per lb 18c
Fancy Dairy Butter, per lb 20c
Choice Creamery Butter, per lb 23o
Fancy Creamery Butter 25o
Fancy full cream Cheese, per lb 15o
Fancy full cream Brick Cheese, lb. . 15o
Pap Sago Cheese, each 7Ho
Neufchatel Cheese, each -..8c
rBESK VEGETABLES AWD TBUIT
Large heads fancy Cauliflower 7Ho
Fancy Wax or String Beans, per lb....fic
4 hunches fresh Beets 6c
6 bunches fresh Turnips Ko
8 heads fresh Lettuce, Be
6 bunches fresh Radishes ftc
4 bunches fresh Onions 6c
2 quarts fresh Peas . '. to
2 hunches fresh Parsley 5;
Large Cucumbers, each 6c
Extra large Juicy Lemons. rer doz....26c
I Fancy sweet Oranges, per dozen 16c
'Fresh roasted Peanuts, per quart ..... .6c
FLY SCREEN WIRE
SALE ,
H WIRE, 3 -
ZZ. 4C
CHICKEN WIRE,
per foot,
Rubber Garden Hose, coupled up free, per
foot, "VjC, 9c and 12 Ho
Gratis Catchers free with Lawn Mowers.
Gem Lawn Mowers, each . ...2.49
High Wheel Lawn Mowers, worth $9.96
only ' I.60
See our 37 Varieties of Washing Machines
1-quart Ice Cream Freewrs $1.39
Shinola Outfits, brush, dauber, etc., worth
3Rc, only 16c
No. t Furniture Varnish, pint cans ..290
Ice Picks, Shaves, etc., etc So
BEFaiGZSATOB BALM MOVDAT '
Galvanized' Ice Box Pans, worth 46c. 25o
Ice King Refrigerator, only $14.95
Large, well made Ice Boxes, worth '$25.00
U-e Chests, $6.2j, $7.51) and $9.00
Screen Door Hinges, worth 20o 2 Ho
Sticky Fly Paper, Tanglefoot, sheets
for 60
TRY HAYDEN'S FIRST
High -Grade VJhite
Goods Department
The Greatest in the West
INDIA LINONS.
19c India LlnonB 12Js
15c India Linons 103
12c India Linons. 7
lOo India Linons 5-
PERSIAN LAWNS.
2Ec Persian Lawns 12
19c Persian Lawns 10
16c Persian Lawns 8
IjONG CLOTHS.
20c English Long Cloths. . 12
1 6c English Long Cloths .... 10?
12c English Long Cloths. . -7H
DOMESTIC SWISS.
25c Dotted Swisses 12 Wg
19c Dotted Swisses 1
16o Dotted Swisses 7 Ha
ST. GALL SWISSES.
All cut In two embroidered figure
and dots, up to $2.00 yard
at ...HALF PRICE
Ladies' Muslin
and Knit
Underwear
The most enticing bargains to
be found In the city. 35 to 50
savings to yoti on every Item.
Skirts Worth to $2.50, In almost
endless variety of pretty designs,
all well made and handsomely
trimmed, elegant bargains at,
choice 98
Gowns at ROr, Tftc ami 08c that
have never neen surpassed In
quality at the price. All made
extra long and full.
Ladles' Union Hulls Worth 98c,
In pure, lisle thread, lace trim
med; special, at 50tf
Ladies' Vests Worth to 25c, un
matched bargains at our sate
prices, 12 Vic, 10c and 5
Dozens of other special bargains.
BIRDS OF PREY FLY UP TOWN
Driven from Their Perchei in Wall
Street Skyscraper.
KAUD TO KEEP THE CROOKS OUT
Renting; Agents In the Fin nn Mat Dis
trict Onureful New Abont Tenant
Detective Hire t Look
I'd Applicants.
NEW YORK. June IS Keeping- the big
new office buildings In the Wall street dis
trict clean of crooks requires a deal ot
careful watching and Investigation these
days. In fact. If the statement of some
of the Investigators is to be believed there
never was a time when so many crooked
schemes were devised to get the publlo's
money.
The backers of every one of these
schemes count It as a big asset If they can
swure a AValt street address. By a Wall
street vaddress Is not meant simply a perch
In one vf the towering structures that
actually line the little street from which
the whole district takes Its nam, for an
address on several other street, suoh as
llroad street or Exchange plaoe. la almost
as good for the purpose. Certain blocks
on Broadway, recognired as being a part
of the financial district, also fill the bill.
With the putting up ot new buildings
with twenty or more stories here baa com
a determined movement on the part of at
least some of the agents and superintend
ents to keep financial swindlers from get
ting ottlccs In their buildings. One a con
cern t this kind get Into a building It Is
a prutty tough job to get It out. and for
that reason no end of vlgtlanc Is exerolsed
. when applications for spat ar mad.
There never a time when the big
Wall street buildings were so clean." said
a man whese business It Is to keep' tab an
the crooks. "That does not mean that tho
district la clean by any means, because
liufarlou schemes without number are
being worked there right now, soma of
them r.o doubt In the best building. "
'but It doe mean that ther has been a
big Improvement and an Improvement that
ought to go steadily on until more and
uior of th financial crooks find It neces
sary to flit to roosts further urlowm. Ther
St already a big movement In that direction,
which I the best evidence in the world
ti.at tilings ai not coiufurtabl for them
!"n litre."
fee iia j when a big twenty-story build-
ing on Wall street begins to bid for a
place In the skyline along with the other
skyscrapers It Is pretty certain that among
th applications for offices In, It there will
be some that won't pass muster. It takes
a year or mor sometimes to fill a great
building with tensnts. There is always a
temptation to th renting agents not to be
too particular.
But a good many of them have found
that It doesn't pay not to be particular.
They have found that for a building to
have the reputation of being clean is an
attraction to good tenants that will win
out In th long run.
Most of th work of Investigating appli
cants Is done, not by these agents them
selves, but by special detectives, who make
a specialty of this line of business. These
men not only keep a card Index themselves
of all the swindlers that have been exposed,
but they employ any number of stool pig
eons, men who have at on time or another
been mixed up In crooked finance and have
a marvellous faculty of finding out just
who Is back of th various concerns that
start up and masquerade under names that
seem eminently respectable.
These names ar frequently trade names,
registered at th county clerk's office. Th
records ther will show In such oases who
the persons doing business under them are,
but often it la back of these nsmes that
the detective must go to run down the real
backer of the scheme, who may turn out to
be some financier they have In their rogues'
gallery of finance. In such a case the se
curities company or mining company, or
whatever It may be. Is politely told by the
agent of the new building that spao in It
cannot be had.
Satan lias Goad BacklnaT.
It lant always easy to smoke out th
backer of some fraudulent mining scheme
or promotion. All th big buildings that
are trying to keep the crooks out these days
require references. Th facility with which
these ar obtained la often surprising.
. A case In point Is that of C. Augustus
Baton, now serving a sentence In Sing
Blng for swindling a lot of southerners
by posing as a banker her and taking a
contract to float? a bond Issue for a Texas
railroad company. Baton was one of th
men who counterfeited stork certificates of
j th Norfolk and Western and had Just
Started to put them out when the plot wa
run down and he was nubbed. along with
Kid Murray, alias Col. Colmey of Nevada.
One ot the references which 8eton. then
posing as he head of C. Augustus Betpn
& Co., bankers, had when he tried to get
into one of th biggest buildings in th
street happened to be the president of
one of tnu largest and best known trust
companies In the city. If the building had
not been very particular In regard to th
character of Its tenants that" letter would
have got Peton Into the building without
another question.
Beton's name was handed over to th
detective agency along with a lot of others
In th regular course of business. When
on of the detectives reported that Beton
had a record out In Ohio and was a swind
ler, th agent almost -gasped. Even after
th agent told about the letter the detective
Insisted that he wa right and that the
letter only went to prove how clever Beton
was .
Beton did not get any space In that build
ing, but ha did In another and from ther
worked his schema to defraud a lot of in
nocent Investors down In Texas and also
hatched ther th plot to counterfeit se
curities. It came out later that Beton had
hoodwinked the trust company president
and had even used the trust company to
bolster up his swindling gam.
Gasoline Glvea The n Worry.
On of th hardest men to keep from
getting a perch somewhere In Wall, street
was It. A. Ooslln. His name still strike
terror In th hearts ot th agents ot the
building ther.
It was not Goslln himself who tried to
get In. but concerns that bad him as a
backer. In fact, Ooslln had a way of
getting so far in the background that It
was hard to Identify him as the man who
was getting the money culled from the
suckers. It was on accoutit of Ooslln and
his list of companies more than anything
else that there cam the present concerted
movement on th part of som of th large
renting agents to keep th financial crooks
from getting a rooat among respectable
Arms and enterprises.
Every time a Ooslln enterprise was
brought to light the building that had
harbored It suffered. It Is the same way
with buildings that hav sheltered con
cerns operating along similar lines, par
ticularly when exposure or arrest has
shown th real backers ot these concerns
to be crooks with their pictures tn th
rogues' gallery.
Agents rraa a tTaloa.
It was to protect themselves from this
sort of thing that the agents of a lot of
th large buildings got together som time
agp and agreed to co-operate and employ
th same men In Investigating applicants
as tenants. The Broad-Exchange bultdtuj
the Hanover bank building and the new
Trust Company ot America building ar
among these. A concern rejected by one
of these buildings Is rejected by all. EVeu
after tenants ar taken there Is a careful
watch kept to se that th business con
ducted is legitimate.
Bom time ago a tenant of one of these
buildings decided to move to another floor.
In the. course of the moving It wi dis
covered that this tenant had an unusual
number of telephones. These telephones
were all Investigated one night. They
turned out to be real ones, all right, but
It only goes to show bow alert the agents
are these days.
The tricks of the swindlers are many and
ingenious. For instance, one plan Is to
have a string of concerns ostensibly ope
rating separately and without connection
of any kind, though in reality branches of
one concern.
Borne firm of mining brokers of unsavory
reputation will give two or three of these
others firms as references in trying to get
Into a building. Th references are mere
dummies, of course, but It often takes a
lot of hard work before there Is th
proper evidence to show that they ar all
th same concern.
Just now It is the mining game that Is
giving th Wall street building agents sll
kinds ot trouble. It Is a very difficult
game to run down, which accounts for
the fact, as observed by the police and
others, that many men with unsavory rep
utations and soma with criminal records
hav made haste to get Into It.
Sometimes they ar hidden behind alleged
securities companies, but they are ther
just th same. They may hav a mining
claim somewhere or some pretense ot title.
All of them hav pjenty of stock to dispose
of anyway. It is next to Impossible to look
up th mining claim. It isn't so hard to
run down the records of th men selling
th stock.
Una of th Many Dodges.
On trouble th renting agents hav to
contend with is that other tenants take in
people In th guise of employes who use
the address to circulate get-rich-uuick liter-
, ature from. They are not subtenants and
hence no lease affecting them ever iconics
before the agent to be approved.
Not long ago a concern started up to run
a discretionary pool game and sent out tons
of literature. It was run down and found
to emanate f'ora a small desk In the oflico
of a brokerage Arm of the beat standing.
Tli man .had simply engaged desk room
ther and the brokerage concern professed
to b as surprised as anyone when they
found that they were harboring a company
with a high sounding name and plenty of
literature.
On the fringe of the Wall street district
ar still a lot of old buildings In which
conditions ar not so good. These build
lugs still tav th advantag of possessing
a address that looks well on the kind of
literature sent to tlu sucker and they are
atlractlxe to th financial swindler becaus
their business Is done largely by mall.
Nobody w ill see th building, but thai man
on the farm will see the address. In soma
of these financial sharpers obtain shelter
without the Investigation that would be
made if they tried the larger buildings.
Several buildings have become notorious
for the number of schemes they have shel
tered, schemes operated In many cases by
men whose records were common talk In
Wall street.
Borne of the skyscrapers, too, hav showed
little If any disposition to Investigate ap
plicants rigidly, but the example set by the
large renting agents tn the well known
buildings Is having a good effect. One sky
scraper on Broadway Just before May 1
cam around turned over It list of tenants
to a reporting agency and decided on a
spring cleaning. Fully fifty concerns were
reported on adversely and their leases were
not renewed.
That there has been a flight of the finan
cial birds of prey northward there Is no
doubt. Mining concerns, securities com
panies and schemes with a promise of div
idends right off the bat after they get
your money can be found without number
in and around Twenty-third street now.
That's quite a way from th temple of
finance and the plac where mining stocks
are supposed to be quoted. Some of them
would gladly get nearer, but they can't
find a roost. They ar barred from a good
many and th others are full.
FIGHTING EDITOIfl BUCKS UNION
How a Nevada Publisher of Two
Paper Turned Down s Walk
ing; Delegat.
Llndley C. Branson, a young editor, ar
rived from Noma when the "union" was In
full flower of Its dominion, feared and de
ferred to by all classes and started two
dally newspapers. The Tonopah Sun and
The Goldnelil Sun, In the Nevada in In fog
camps. He had successfully edited several
mining-camp dallies In Alaska, lie is a
quiet, forceful young msn, who does things
without any bluster. There are few men
today who know so thoroughly th psychol
ogy of a mining camp. '
Several weeks after h began to get out
his papers. Joseph Smith, th walking dele
gate of the Independent Workers of th
World, called on him and told him that
his printers, pressmen, devils and whoever
else he employed would have to join the
"union." Branson said he would look Into
it. He did. Smith cam back expecting a
cringing submission to his "polite com
mand.' He was staggered when th editor
said to him: "My men will not Join th
Independent Workers of th World. They
do not believe In the Uebs' hash of social
ism aud anarchy. Already they ar mem
bers of the American Federation. I will
have something to say about your organi
sation In a few days." The walking dele
gate retorted that requests to join the
union Were never disobeyed by prudent
men. Prudent men were those who wished
to remain In th desert and not be burled
ther. His storm of threats subsided very
suddenly when the young editor drew from
his Jacket pocket two short-barrelled it's
and spread them unostentatiously but sig
nificantly on the top of bis desk. Exit the
walking delegate.
Th organisation had power enough then
to persuade every merchant, tradesman,
broker, wildcatter, and even many mine
operators to refuse any advertisements to
bis papers. Even the newsboys, messenger
boys, bank clerks, brokers' clerks, shop
clerks, stenographers, young and old of
every employment wr members of th
Independent Workers of th World then.
It was commonly said that they became
members through "the fear of God" estab
lished by th "union. The miners wer
In th same plight, though they feebly pro
claimed that they had a union of their own
distinct from the Independent Wtorkers of
th World and a local of th Western Fed
eration of Miners.
This "fear of Ood" Branson proved a
miserable superstition -that foundered ut
terly when a man of Initiative and uncom
mon pluck challenged It. He demonstrated
that the bad men and desperate characters
of the "union" wer contemptible cravens,
and he branded them In his headlines as
"curs," "scoundrels," "assassins," "cheap
skates, "low-browed thugs," "cowards,"
and "sneaking murderers." That he found
men with the courage to set the type was
considered as remarkable as his own daunt
less front
When It came to the disciplining of a
man who could shoot with both bands with
out taking them 'out of his pockets or
apparently moving a musclo, the Indepen
dent Workers of the World leaders were
revealed In their true light. On attempt
was made to kill htm and only one. He
sought out the man who had shot at him
from behind a shed and made h'.m go down
on his knees to him in front of the Inde
pendent Workers of the World headquar
ters and beg for mercy. Do sens of "work
ers" looked on in sullen silence.
By this time Branson had the backing of
such noted gun-fighter as Oeorg Wlng
fleld and Diamond-field Jack Davis. These
two millionaire mine-owners had volun
teered their services as his newsboya They
distributed Vis boycotted papers In a spec
tacular fashion, spitting them on the long
barrels of .4t-caliber revolvers and taking
Ihcm from th shotted flies to hand to
purchasers. No "worker" had the temerity
to disturb these newsboys.
Then Branson, Wingfleld, Davis, and
United States Senator George 8. Nixon
organised their protective association and
declared a counter-boycott upon the boy
cotting union. The hundreds of miners
who had been bullied Into joining th out
law union wer notified that th mines
would thereafter be closed to Independent
Workers of th World men. When th
miners refused to do this the mine were
closed, and finally they were starved out
of the Deb' organisation.
Leaders of the American Federation of
Labor were brought to the camp, who, un
der th protection of th Mine-Owners'
and Business men's Protective association,
organized th separate trades out of th
Independent Workers of th World, until
at last ther were no "workers" left who
had any distinctive calling recognised by
th American Federation. Barton W. Cur
rte. In Harper's Weekly.
Safe Miner's Lamp.
Tests have been conducted recently with
a lamp that may prove a great advanco
on the miners' lamps now In us In th
coal fields of the I'nlted States. While th
Inventor has not fully described his lamp
in his demonstrations, practical men hav
thoroughly Investigated it and term It "th
liquid electricity lamp." Th lamp weight
five and one-half pounds and Is not In
tended to hook on the miner's cap. Instead
of the cap hook, It has a large metal hook,
which la to be caught on the mine wall and
th heavy glasses sighted toward th point
where th miner Is working.
At a .distance of ten feet It Is possible to
read a newspaper by and two lamps la .
one room make it as bright as day. By two '
sockets the lamps are charged from a 11 -volt
dynamo located In a separate room In
the mine. The lamps are Intended to be
placed In this room after every working
day and are In charge of a specls! work
man, familiar with charging them, th
charge lasting eight hours. The lamps ar
expensive, costing In th neighborhood of
14 each. One of the features than I most
expensive Is the small tubes and film that
meet at a point where the light Is pro
jected. Tho breakage of these adds materi
ally to the coet of th lamp. Th miners
or somewhat divided ss to th value of
the lamp, many of them objoctlng to th
weight in carrying it In and out of th
mine, while all believe that It gives a mor
perfect and satisfactory light. Th officials
bellav that th men will overcome this
dislike as they become mor famlUar wllA
tn lamp. j
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