Black Hills Daily Register from Lead, South Dakota • Page 1

ers' Union No. 2, W. F. M. Black Hilly Daily Hills Trades Assembly.

Official Organ District Min- Official Organ of the Black Register Lead, South Dakota, Thursday Evening, March 10, 1910 No. 283 Volume V. lockout NOTES THE LOCKOUT IS STILL ON. Workingmen of all parts of the country are 'hereby notified that all reports to the effect that the Homestake lockout has been declared ff are false. The lockout is still on and union men are barred from the company's employ.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Notice. All union men, with the exception 0. the regularly appointed committees, are requested to remain away from Mill street from 4:30 p. m.

to 4:45 p. m. JAMES KIRWAN. Central City Miners. The Central City Miners' Union will vote on the proposition to affiliate with the United Mine Workers next Saturday, from 1 to 6 p.

m. All members will please take notice. Axel Erickson, President. The members of the Ladies' Auxiliary will meet at Miners' Union hall at 7:30 Thursday evening for the transaction of business. By order of the president.

The District Miners' Union will meet at the Union hall in this city tomorrow night and it is desired that all delegates be in attendance. The dance at the opera house last night was well attended and the merrymakers had a dandy time. One of the reasons for the great enjoyment was the excellence of the music, which was furnished by the Wolfe orchestra, They Want Amalgamation fall the locals of the Western Fedcration vote as the Lead and Terry members have voted, there is certainly a strong desire for unity in the labor movement of America among the organized workers. The judges of election for both Terry and Lead finished up their work of counting yesterday afternoon and the result is almost unanimous to go into the United Mine Workers. There were two questions for the members to vote on and they are given below: No.

I. "Do you endorse the report of the joint committee representing the United Mine Workers of America and the Western Federation of Miners?" No. 2. "Should the report be endorsed by the referendum vote: Shall the executive board of the Western Federation of Miners be herewith instructed to put into effect the recommendations of the joint committee?" The Lead vote 011 question No. was as follows: Yes .1275 No 2 On the second question: Yes 1275 No At Terry all the votes were in the affirmative, as follows: No.

292 No. 2. .289 The Deadwood union is voting today and its vote will be canvassed this evening, while the Central City members will not vote until Satur- day. The locals have until April 3 to get their votes to Denver, where they will be canvassed by the executive, board. The Girls' Junior Auxiliary met at the opera house after the free picture show this afternoon and the girls transacted considerable business of more or less importance.

There. will be two picture shows this evening, the first beginning at 7:30. The Slavonian union men will hold a mass meeting at the opera house at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon and it is desired that all those of the race mentioned attend the meeting. There will be one picture show tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 and the Boys' Auxiliary will meet at 4:15. There will be a free dance at the Central City opera house tomorrow night.

This morning's Pioneer-Times contains what purports to be a dispatch from Houghton, stating that the Osceola Mining company has locked out its 750 employes. The Osceola has been closed down for some weeks, but it appears the Homestake organs are just beginning to find it out. This is the company that recently paid a man 30 cents as his dues for having worked seventeen days, after paying for powder, hospital and club dues. The picture show at Terry last evening drew a packed house and the little folks were particularly pleased with the film showing the animals of the Zoo. Between the films two amusing stunts were pulled off.

The first was a three-round boxing contest between Alex Basker and Vesser Skutt. The boys had about all they could do to handle the big mitts, but they managed to get in some hard licks occasionally. For ten-year-old boys they certainly did well and the honors were even. Dick Kemp and Billy McKean pulled off a black face act which pleased both old and young. A movement is on foot in Terry to union labor paper and if the plan goes through the first issue will appear the latter part of this month.

George D. McClellan is holding an 2 election this afternoon to elect officers for his insurance company; at least he was seen personally conducting a large ballot box down Main street just after dinner. Notwithstanding the Homestake company is said by its newspapers to (Continued on Page Four.) PERIOD OF PEACE PROMISED IN BUTTE A dispatch from Boston quotes the Commercial of that city as follows on the statement of the latest labor trouble in Butte: "The settlement of the latest labor trouble in Butte has brought about a better understanding between the mining companies and the labor unions. due to the intelligent manner in which the situation was handled by John D. Ryan, president of the Amalgamated and Superintendent John Gillie, and there seems to be an assurance of labor peace for at least two years.

The mining officials had earnest and effective assistance very from the Butte Miners' Union and the local representative of the Western Federation of Miners. The latter's jurisdiction over all mine employes is made emphatic and unquestioned. The conduct of the "strike troubles just closed showed that the men at the head of the union and federation in Butte are able and conservative and as anxious to live up to the union's contracts with the mining companies as the latter are. Amalgamated officials call attention to the fact that the Butte Miners' Union, notwithstanding the action of the fed- WALL FELL ON TWENTY WORKERS MOL DON LET ME TAKE ALOOK I 'M RUNNING THIS THING TO SUIT MYSELF AND IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS MA HE WANTS TO BE LET ALONE. MEN SAY BOILERS (By Pan-American Press.) the boiler?" The boiler expert glanced covertly at the row of superintendents, managers and legal advisors in the pay of the railroads which crowded one side of the committee room, and, as he answered, their faces, in turn, came tense and white.

"Yes. When the stay bolts are leaking it is nothing unusual to put half a barrel of bran or fine sawdust in the boiler, or if that is not available, to go to a stable and get horse manure, charging the boiler with that, also with sal ammoniac. That is what we call the 'dope Many of our boilers, or practically all of them on hard runs, get the The leaks are taken up tem--I Three Grafter Plead Guilty Council Bluffs, Mar. trial of J. C.

Mabray and his seventeen alleged confederates, charged with wholesale swindling by mean of. fake sporting events, was begun in the federal court here today before Judge Smith McPherson. Bert R. Shores, Wm. S.

Harris and Frank N. Marsh, three of the eightyone defendants, pleaded guilty yesterday and threw themselves on the mercy of court. Further and similar pleas are expected. A jury was secured before the noon recess. Loses Them In the Creek Monday forenoon, about 10 o'clock, John Berth who is a newcomer on the H.

O. flat, tried to cross Horse creek near the Boe ranch, and as a result lost a good team of horses and a part of his wagon. He lost the bed and two hind wheels, the team that was drowned being tied to the hind wheels. This was Mr. Berth's second trip 011 the Sturgis road, he having shipped his stock, to Lemmon about three months ago.

He is an 111- married man and came to this part of the state from down near where he has a farm rented. He told a gentlman who came as. far as Fox Pidge, with him that he owned three 80s in Canada. He was on his way to Sturgis after a load of building material and Standard. Peace in Sight.

Bogota, Colombia, Mar. anti -American riots practically ceased last night and all Americans are now thought safe. Weather. Weather. South Dakota--Generally fair tonight and Friday; colder Friday.

ARE DOPED porarily, but as soon as the boiler i is washed out the dope is washed out and then it is a case of 'doping up' again. Owen Ruefly, a boiler maker of twenty years' standing, followed Jeffrey as a witness and explained how the introduction of sal ammoniac into the boiler made a rust that stopped the leaks, a rust that was fatal to the strength of the boiler. Fearful of the effect of the evidence being offered by their employes, the railroad representatives brought forward Theo. H. Curtis, superintendent of machinery on the Louisville Nashville railroad, who, (Continued on Page Two.) Teddy Visiting In Egypt Khartum, Egypt, Mar.

Roosevelt left Laufiflia yesterday and is expected here next Monday. He will be met by Mrs. Roosevelt and daughter, Ethel. They will remain here until the following Thursday and will be entertained at the Sir Dars Palace. Emigrants Going West Pierre, S.

March movement of emigrant cars to the western part of the state is now well started for the spring, and every freight train which goes west of the Missouri over the Northwestern road carries all the way three or four up to a dozen such cars. The flood will increase through the last of this month and continue up to the middle of May, if such movement of former years is any indication. Other roads which touch the country west of the Missouri are also carrying their loads of emigrants, and the western half of the state will receive a large number of permanent settlers who come prepared to stay. The cars carry general supplies and the railroad yards sound like a barnyard when a freight train is 011 the tracks. Ninkoviches Discharged.

On motion of the state's attorney, the intimidation cases brought against the Ninkovich brothers was dismissed in circuit court this morning. It may be recalled that the two men mentioned were arrested on the other side of Spearfish about the first of the year, it having been alleged that they had made threats in a Spearfish saloon that if the Homestake company worked scabs in the Spearfish canyon they (the -Ninkoviches) would dynamite them or in some other manner make it unpleasant for the intruders. FANATICAL RIOT IN HOLY LAND Washington, D. Mar. ican parties visiting Mosque of Omar, near Jerusalem, have been fired upon by Arghan fanatics.

Miss Mathilde Maurice of Mamaroneck, N. received a slight flesh wound and Miss Pittsburg, Mar. fifty foot brick wall, which was left standing in the ruins of a fire that early Tuesday partly wrecked a bolt factory on Carson street collapsed today burying twenty workment. Two were killed and ten fatally injured. Thirteen of the men were foreigners.

SECRETARY GAREFIELD TAKES WITNESS STAND Washington, D. Mar. testimony of James R. Garfield, former secretary of the interior, before the Ballinger-Pinchot investigating committee today was enlivened by the declaration of the witness that he did not believe that the $30,000,000 bond issue recommended by President Taft was necessary for the proper forwarding of irrigation work in the west. He said this in defense of the co-operative agreements he entered into with Water Users' associations and reclamation certificates which he issued as evidence of work performed If Banker Morse Would Talk Atlanta, March Charles W.

Morse would tell what he knows of the connection of financiers in New York with the panic of 1907 about a dozen men who stand high in the business world would be buying tickets to Europe and other places for trips of indefinite length," said W. P. Reid, of Boston, before leaving for the cast yesterday, after a conference with the former "ice king." Mr. Reid, a lifelong friend of Morse, has much of his business in charge, and has been a frequent visitor at the federal prison here since the latter began serving a fifteen years' sentence for violation of the national banking laws. "Morse is not the squealing kind and those men know it.

But if they thought he was going to talk they would not be so backward in giving him their aid." added Mr. Reid. According to him, the fifteen old daughter of Morse does not know of his imprisonment. She thinks her father is merely on a lengthy pleasure trip and is ignorant even of his arrest. Longs for Prison.

Sioux City, Mar. have been in the penitentiary before; I know what it is like: that is the reason want a long term," declared Lee Davis, as he was being taken back to Sioux Falls, S. by Sheriff Charles M. Nelson last night. "Prison walls are my only salvation.

My system craves the undermining drugs which are slowly killing me. I must cure myself of my awful habit this time or it will be the Davis gave himself up to the police last week while under the influence of drugs. He confessed that he committed burglary in Sioux Falls. Robbers Flee On Handcar Edna. Mar.

dynamited the safe in the Bank of Edna early today and secured $3,000 and escaped on a hand car after exchanging shots with a number of citizens. One citizen was shot but his wound is not believed serious. came to be known as "Garfield currency." The witness also said that it was evident that Taft and Wickersham did not have the proper facts before them when they reached their opinions that were adverse to the legolity of these certificates. He implied that Ballinger was responsible in this matter but made no direct charges. Garfield admitted that in urging general coal land legislation he had been willing to condone fraudulent entries in Alaska provided the entrymen were compelled to pay a price for the land.

Police and Justice Court RAILROAD Washington, D. Mar. not only for the protection of their own lives, but for the safety of the passengers as well, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has produced evidence in support of Senator Burkett's bill for the government inspection of locomotive boilers that reads like the unearthing of a great national scandal. Senator Burkett's questioning of H. S.

Jeffrey, boiler expert, brought forth these startling facts: "You spoke a moment ago of the cracks occurring, broken stay bolts, and steam escaping." demanded the senator, "do you know of artificial means being used to stop leaking water by introducing something else into Young Knox Offered Job Plattsburg. N. Mar. C. Knox, the son of Secretary of State Knox, whose secret marriage caused his father to disown him, was today offered a position as reporter by a Plattsburg evening paper.

Would Break Corn Trust Guadalajara, Mexico, Mar. The commission men having practically cornered the Mexican corn crop in the states of Guanajauto and Jallisco, the government has ordered 300 bushels of American corn, which will be sold at cost to the poor. The state governments declare it is their intention to break the corner of the trust. Mae Wood Pleased. Julesburg, Mar, 10.

"Thank God," was the, ejaculation of Mae Wood when told of the death of formier Senator Thomas C. Platt. "I shall continue my fight now as the widow of Senator Platt," she added, "and I shall fight to the end." For two years Miss Wood has lived almost alone 011 her ranch 011 the crest of hill- that overlook the Platte river. "It would have been better--far better--for me had he died years ago," she continued, after a few moments' pause, "Will it alter my plans? I do not yet know. It will make 110 difference in the prosecution of my appeal from the verdict in the breach of promise case.

I shall certainly prosecute that against the estate to the last ditch. "The new trouble I am having over this ranch is due entirely to Platt inLuence. He and his friends tried to say that I was insane and the wonder is that they did not get me under lock and key in a New York Russians Strike at Siberian Evil St. Petersburg, Mar. budget committee of the Duma struck at the root of the system of Siberian exile by cutting the appropriation for the administration of the system to 500.

The committee admitted that, the government has reduced the number of exiles in recent years, but declared that the system is still bad and must go. Otto Anderson and Joe Corter were fined $5 and costs each by Police Judge Moore this morning for intoxication. Gus Swanson will be tried on the same charge when he gets in condition to come into court. Frad Klamo was arrested for using abusive language and was held under a bond of $250 to appear for trial at IO a. m.

011 March 18. Death in Whitetail. Mrs. Angelo Mutto died at her home in Whitetail gulch this morning after a brief illness. Deceased was about 21 years of age and leaves 2 husband and three small children.

She was a daughter of Joseph Gharno of Portland. No arrangements for the funeral have been announced. State's Attorney Heffron is making an argument before Judge Rice this afternoon in favor of having the present circuit court jury panel dismissed and a new jury drawn. His contention is that the jury, was not drawn as contemplated by the statutes, although it was drawn just as all juries have been drawn in this county for the past ten years. Heffron Wants A New Jury Mrs.

Charles E. Rose of this city was taken to St. Joseph's hospital last night for an operation for a minor ailment. Death at Terry. 'Nestor Erickson, one of the union men of Terry, died at his home in that town yesterday afternoon of pneumonia, aged 35 years.

He is survived by a widow, but no children. The funeral services will be held a at the opera house at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon, Rev. Norsworthy officiating. The deceased was a member of the Terry Peak Miners' Union and the Terry A. O.

U. W. lodge. The body will be buried in the Terry cemetery. Government Replies, Washington, D.

Mar. government today filed briefs in the supreme court in the Standard Oil case in opposition to those filed yesterday by the company. FOREIGN NEWSPAPER MEN FAVOR THE "OPEN DOOR" (By Pan-American Press.) convention in declaring against contracts employers, lived up to every letter of its contract 111 Butte, and accepted a reduction of wages in 1907, in accordance with their contracts. It is a notable fact. again emphasized by the recent strike in Butte, that the mining companies have never had any labor trouble that originated with the great army of miners, but always through some smaller union.

The striking engineers have declared the strike off and the strikers will return to work where positions are open, and they will also renew allegiance to. the Western Federation and remain loyal to the latter. "It is the firm belief that by strengthening the hands of the MinUnion and the federation there will be less labor trouble in Butte hereafter, and the emphatic declaration of President Ryan and his company to enforce all agreements made with the federation, and that the Amalgamated will no longer endure terference with its mining operations. has strengthened confidence in and respect for its Standard. Washington, D.

Mar. editors; representing 350 newspapers published in foreign languages and printed in the United States, have just presented to the house committee on immigration and naturalization, data, which, coming from those who have every reason not to exaggerate the tremendous pressure of upon the conditions of labor in America, is the most remarkable piece of evidence of its kind ever offered to congress. These, editors set forth in their memorial that: "Of the 890,000 miners, mining the coal to operate the great industries, 630,000 are our people. "Of the 580,000 steel and iron workers employed in the different plants throughout the United States, 69 per cent, according to the latest statistics of the steel and iron industries, are our people." The arrival of these foreign editors in Washington is taken as a reply to the massing of forces in the capitol demanding a restriction of immigration. These forces are the American Federation of Labor, the Farmers' Unions, the Immigration Regulation League, with headquarters in Boston, and powerful movement on the Pacific coast particularly directed against the Japanese.

That this wave of opposition to immigration may become the vivifying force of united political action throughout the United States is feared by the regulars of the republican and democratic parties who secretly acknowledge that the formation of an American labor party is only: a matter of months. These politicians point out that such representative bodies as the New York Central Federated Union and the Chicago Federation of Labor have recently passed resolutions calling for the formation of a labor party, and that President Gompers left Washington for Chicago last Saturday to attend a convention of delegates from the Society of Equity, and a number of similar farmers' organizations, called to consider, in joint session with delegates from organized labor, the advisability of political action. Parker Moore of Terra Haute, was seriously wounded but will recover. No others were hurt. The information came to the state department late last night in a telegram from Consul Wallace, who is located at Jerusalem..