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VOLUME 9
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1901
NUMBER 38
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FROM STRIKt CENTER
ROOSEVELT ADDRESSES
KANSAS VETERANS
Both Sides Claiming to Have Made
Material Gains
Warns Them Not to Enjoy
a L'fe of Ease, but Honor
the Man Who Works
STRIKERS MAKE INROADS ON
THE BIG CARNEGIE PLANT
The Steel Managers [Spring a Counter Surprise
Opening Two Big Plants at Pittsburg
and Cleveland
by
ciation and hastened the decline of all
labor unions. The workingmen al
000,000.
When the Homestead strike began
[By Associated Press.]
Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 14.—(Bulletin)
—Rumors of a settlement of the
strike are again being revived but
confirmation is impossible. It is re-
lated, circumstantially, that the
Amalgamated association knows it
can not win; that the United States
Steel corporation fears the loss of
both skilled men and orders to inde-
pendent mills and that they are close
to terms which will be satisfactory to
both.
Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 14.—Both sides
made material gains today in the steel
strike. The remaining force at the
plant of the National Tube works at
McKeesport joined the strikers and
that great plant is now practically
silent. The strikers also made some
gains among the men a£ the lower
union mill of the Carnegie company in
Pittsburg, but there is a direct con-
flict in the claims made by either
side as to the exact condition of that
plant. The strikers say they will
force it to close down, while the man-
agers insist they have not been hurt
and that the plant will be kept mov-
ing. The material gains of the manu-
facturers were at Painter's mill in
this city and the Crescent mill of the
American Tin Plate company in
Cleveland. At the former a surprise
was sprung on the strikers and two
mills, one with a crew of old employes
who struck on the first order, were
going before it was known that any q"arters of the Amalgamated, and
when the trouble ended the book-
[By Associa ed Press.]
Hulahihson, Kas., Aug. 14.—Vioe
President Roosevelt, who is enroute
home from Colorado, stopped here for
a short time this morning, and from
the rear platform of his train ad-
dressed several thousand veterans at-
tending the reunion. Roosevelt spoke
for fifteen minutes and aroused the
crowd to great enthusiasm. He
thanked the old soldiers in the name
of the American people for their past
valor and sacrifices and referring
briefly to civic life warned them not
to envy a life of ease.
"You soldiers," he said, "don't envy
those who lived lives of ease from
'61 to '65. You don't regret the work
you did then do you?"
Cost in Cash and Prestige. pjre answers an(j amens poured
The figures of the Homestead strike from the vetel.an8i and RooBevelt,
have never been made public. continuing, said in part:
That strike, as is well known, was , „We can never hope tQ make the
disastrous to the Amalgamated asso- j country all lt shouM be untll we hon.
or the man who works, until we ac-
workingmen ai-|cept the principle that the man is to
most learned in that dispute the futili-1 be judged Qn his work as a man „
y of trying to settle disputes by As the t,.aln began to pu„ QUt many
force. The lesson, nowever, was not! of he oI(, so]dlers wlth their wiveB
a thorough one, although it cost, $2,- and chiIdren ran behind the car seek.
ing to shake hands with the vice presi-
dent, several men climbing onto the
in 1892 the Amalgamate* association (.ar platform after the train had go -
had a s rike fund of $164,000. The ten llp good speed
money was on interest in the Lincoln -
National bank of Pittsburg. When | oonvention, however, lt is safe to say
the strike began the Amalgamated i rhat the membership then did not run
association had 52,000 members. ; Qvep ,6 000 Twelve thousand of these
About 6,000 ot them became mixed up ; men are nQW oa gtp,ke ,n the three
in that trouble, and the other 46,0001 :lepartments of the United States
remained at work, in a vain endeavor i ui i i ,
i i^teel corporation which have already
to support the strikers. The first few ,, „ .
...... I been called out. Most of the balance
weeks of the strike brought out no _ , ,
. . . . 4 ® !of the Amalgamated men are employ-
hardships or trouble. Credit was
C010RAD0 PREPARES
FOR DEFENSE
Against Threatened Litiga=
tion from Kansas Over
Arkansas River Water
CLEVELAND HOLOCAUST
DESTROYS MANY LIVES
Workmen Trapped Like Rats and
Burned to Death
[By Associated Press.]
Pueblo, Col., Aug. 14.—A well at-
tended meeting of representatives of
the irrigation companies in the Ar-
kansas valley of Colorado, including
officials of all the big canals from
Canon Caty to Lamar, met here and
appointed a committee to conduct
Colorado's defense in the courts
against threatened litigation from
Kansas over Arkansas river water.
The state engineer and a representa-
tive from the state agricultural de-
partment are included in the commit-
tee.
NINE
PERSONS SUPPOSED TO
DE
DEAD ARE RESCUED
THE FALL CIRCUIT.
good, and it was summer time. Dui*-
ed in independent concerns which are
not affec*ed by this strike. The other
ing the first few weeks the fight ,
, . ,, , departments of lie steel company are
on the men carried themselves along, i , ,
^ ,, .... I being organized, however, with more
Then the strike benefits began. [„„ „„„„„„„ „
or less success. But every one of the
T. . ^ , inew mills organized means that many
l\ * J0ng l„°„ „T up | more to take care of when they strike.
In 1892 the Amalgamated asaocia-
Where the Men Suffered.
$164,000 when tbere are 6,000 men
drawing a weekly sum from it to sup- Uon had 6 000 men Qn gtrlke ar„ u,.
port themselves The money las ed i 000 worklng to supp0rt thenl. In 1901
only a little while, and then the as-
sessments began to fall on the work- i
the Amalgamated association has 12 -
j 000 men on strike and 14,000 working
to support them. In 1892 the Amalga-
such move was contemplated. It is
said that another crew will be put on
shortly and the managers assert that
many of their old men will come back.
There was no disorder at the mill t >-
day and it is said the old employes
will not do picket duty for fear of
being blacklisted in the future. Ameri-
can Tin Plate officials say they have
half the mills in the Crescent plant
moving. In round numbers the last
strike order issued by Shaffer has
been obeyed by 20,000 men and the
total number of men who struck or
were rendered idle by all three orders
is now placed at 65,000 men. The
strikers scored heavily at McKees-
port today when nearly 3,000 men and
uoys employed by the National Tube
company, joined forces with the
strikers and tied the plant up.
President Shaffer is in Wheeling
today at a large union demonstration
at the State Fair grounds.
ing members of the association. The
™°"!LP0"r^ln hea<|"|mated'assoclation""had" $l(u'000 in
bank. Today it has $150,000. Yet the
officials say they never were so well
prepared to stand a long siege.
Encouraging Prospects For the An-
nual Horse Racing.
Preparation for holding the race
meet are rapidly going on. Indications
pre that this meeting will be the best
that has been held in the history of
the association. The reason is that
special attention has been devoted for
the past year in working up a good
s'rong territorial circuit, which in-
cludes all of the leading cities and
towns of the territory. This circuit
is now well organized and several
territorial meetings have been had of
the horsemen of Oklahoma at various
points and work accomplished along
Men, Stark Naked, Could be Distinguished Floating in
the Water and Shouting for HeIp==List
of the Dead and Injured
[>By Associated Press.]
Cleveland, O., Aug. 14.—Fire early
today destroyed the temporary water
work's crib two miles out in the lake,
resulting in the death of at least ten
men, while two o'hers arc probably
fatally injured. In addition to the
large number of workmen who were
in the crib, eleven others were at
work in the tunnel leading from il
two hundred feet below the bottom
of the lake, and the air which was
pumped from the crib to supply the
men working in the tunnel was cut off
as a result of its destruction, it was
at first supposed these men had all
perished. Subsequently, howevei\
WHAT WILL BE EFFECT
OF THE STRIKE?
The Homestead Affair Cost the Men
Heavily in Money and Power-
Some Recollections.
[By Associated Press.]
Washington, D. C„ Aug. 14—Al-
though varying estimates have been
made as to the probable cost of the
great steel strike, it is difficult to
tell if any of them will prove to be
anything near correct when the con-
flict is over and the actual losses are j ship. But the spirit was not broken.
showed that $1,325,000 had been dis-
tributed among the strikers, or for
their benefit. The strike lasted about
three months. The average wages of
an iron worker is $80 per month. Six
thousand men lost during that struggle
at least $1,440,(W0.
Cost to the Carnegie Company.
But the expense of the strikers was
the Utile end of the real expense at-
tached to that great dispute. It is
but little of a secret where the strik-
ers spent their money. It went for
the support of the men, and also the
trials of the Homestead alleged poi-
soners and the murder trials of the
men implicated in the riots. But no-
body knows, nor will ever know, what
the strike cost the Carnegie steel
company. It is safe to say the cost
to the men was as nothing compared
o the cost to the company. The books
which contain the record of expenses
sustained then are sealed and will
not be opened to the eyes of the pub-
lic. It Is safe to assume that the
strike cost the company a couple of
millions at least.
Present Strike Prospects.
The present strike will cost more
than the one in Homestead. No one
outside the national officers knows
how many men there are in the
Amalgamated association today. Af-
ter the defeat of the Homestead the
organization almost went to pieces.
It was bankrupt in its treasury and in
its reputation. The men deserted it
like rats fleeing from a foundering
The Leader market report Is
absolutely correct. Quotations
are given up to the close of mar-
kets today.
TODAY'S MARKETS.
[By Associated Press.5
Kansas City—Live Stock.
Cat le — Cattle, 10,000; choice,
strong; others steady to easy; native
steers, 4.75@5.80; cows and heifers,
2.50®5.00; stockers and feeders, 2.65
@4.30; bulls, 2.50@4.50; calves, 3.00
@5.25.
Hogs—Hogs, 9,000; steady; heavy,
6.00@6.10; packers, 5.70@6.00; mixed,
5.6506.00; light, 5.40@5.85; pigs,
3.50@5.30.
Sheep—Sheep, 4,000; strong; mut-
tons, 3.00@ 4.00; lambs, 4.50@5.25;
range sheep, 3.00@3.50; stockers and
ewes, 2.00@2.50.
along the lines of encouraging ail the 'ne of the men in the tunnel were
good horsemen possible to obtain in rescued after hard work upon the part
the lines of encouraging all the
association's offers and enter their
horses in the territorial circuit. As a
consequence this year will witness the
largest array of thoroughly good
horses on Oklahoma tracks that has
ever been seen in the territory.
The territorial meeting to be held
here in September will be a large one.
Only one thing can mar the meeting,
and that would be the rain. This
lias happened for the past two sea-
sons, but the weather forecast for the
week of the races, Sept. 10 to 13th in-
clusive, is encouraging. The week
will open fair. A new moon phase
will take place on the 12th at 3:18
P. m. This Indicates a rain period.
The 13th will be the Jewish New Year
and the weather is forecasted fair.
The temperature for the week will be
falling and cooler.
Graves & Son, who have charge of
the racing grounds, have made many | >n8 for help. Others were clinging to
improvements for the accommoda- \ ropes which they had tied to rafters
j tions of the horses to be here that | but the flames were burning the ropes
week. Several new stalls have been
built and other accommodations made.
The track is in better condition for
fast records now than ever before, for
it has been kept in shape during the
past year. It is now one of the fast-
est tracks In the southwest. A large
attendance is looked forward to dur-
ing .he week, and the effort being put
forward to make the events interest-
ing certainly deserve the best to offer
from the public.
of their fellow workmen.
It is said that two men are still in
the tunnel, but those rescued state
hat one of these, Victor Kaufman, of
Canton, is alive.
The dead and injured, so far as
known, are:
John Martin, drowned.
Mike Snyder, drowned.
Arthur Hasty, drowned.
Victor Kaufman of Canton, suffocat-
ed.
P. Braddock, frightfully burned.
Five men whose names are un-
known, were burned to death.
Fire and harbor tugs with a rescu-
ing party on board reached the crib
soon after the flames broke out, but
when they arrived the structure was a
mass of flames and all hope of saving
it were abandoned.
Men, stark naked, could be dis-
tinguished floating in the water shout-
Dec.,
; No.
footed up.
Experience shows that strikes al-
ways cost a great deal of money, and
often cost bloodshed, also. Incident-
ally, it may be said that there is a
report current that the American
Federation of Labor has promised the
steel strikers $2,000,000 a month as
long as the fight lasts.
President Shaffer was made presi
dent and started to build up the
wreck which had been handed over to
him. The membership is not half
what it was in 1892. That is, it was
not when the present strike began.
Since the beginning of the strike it
has been growing rapidly. From
close observation at the Milwaukee
Kansas City—Grain.
Wheat—Sept., 67%@67%;
70V£; cash No. 2 hard, 68% @
2 red, 72V4(?i73.
Corn—Sept., 58% @59; Dec., 59%;
cash No. 2 mixed, 58%@59; No. 2
white, 59@59%.
Oats—No. 2 white, 40.
Rye—No. 2, 62@63.
Hay—Choice timothy, 14.50; choice
prairie, 14.00.
Butter—Creamery, 16%@19; dairy,
fancy, 14@16.
Eggs—Fresh, 11.
Receip's of wheat, 178 cars.
The Weather.
Oklahoma and Indian territory—
Tonight and Thursday, fair; cooler to-
night.
away and one by one the men were
falling into the lake.
Tugs circled around the burning
crib, picking up men from the water
and in the meantime playing heavy
streams upon the flames. After hours
of hard work the flames were dimin-
ished so that the firemen could climb
up the charred steps and fight the fire
from the inside. Then the horror of
the calamity was realized. Every-
thing was a total wreck. While the
firemen were pouring water on the
flames there was a roaring furnae'e
beneath which could not be reached.
But the firemen clung to their places
e Territorial Militia Encampment j and fought every inch of the way un-
Will Be Held There. til the fire was under control.
• ! After two hours' of hard work fl.'o
The annual encampment of the ter-1 charred human bodies were found
ritorial militia is to be held at Perry j burned beyond recognition. Two
this year. This has been definitely Iwere in the attitude of prayer. They
decided upon by the governor and!must have been awakened by the fire
the adjutant general. The leading jbut could not escape. They were
citizens of that city made such a con- j caught like rats in a trap. One body
vicing appeal that it would be only was burned almost to nothing. All
just to hold the encampment that they t!lat could be found of it was the skull
IT GOES TO PERRY.
down below and life-savers and fire-
men peered down with ears intent,
but the sounds ceased again. At the
mouth of the shaft it was like a fur-
nace and the iron work was red hot
from the flames. Water that was
thrown on it turned into steam.
Finally after a deluge of water had
been thrown on the smoldering shaft
entrance a voice was heard from the
bottom calling:
"For God's sake throw down a
rope."
A line was quickly dropped down
the shaft. It tightened and the man
at the bottom yelled to Hie rescurers
to pull him up. Slowly but carefully
he was raised. His hands and face
wore covered with slime; his glaring
eyes and heaving chest told of the hor-
ror he had gone through during the
hours he had spent in the tunnel. He
was William Curry of Canton. As soon
as he could gasp he said:
"They are all at the bottom of tjie
shaft; hurry up."
In quick suceession seven others
were brought up. All were in a most
pitiable condition. They reported
that two other men were lying uncon-
scious at the bottom of the shaft. A
workman volunteered to rescue these
men and he was quickly lowered into
the shaft. In a few moments the un-
conscious men were brought up more
dead than alive. One, and possibly
two men, are supposed to be lying
dead in the tunnel too far away from
the shaft to be reached.
The tugs that had hurried out to
the scene when the fire started suc-
ceeded in rescuing not less than
twenty men who were found clinging
to wreckage and ropes tied to the
burning structure.
The tunnel which has been under
course of construction for several
years past and is still far from com-
pletion, has been the cause of the loss
of more than thirty lives.
NEW DENTAL BOARD.
entirely won over the governor. Last
year Perry made an application for
the encalnpment but it went to Enid.
The year before it was held in this
city, and the bid of Guthrie for it
this year was refused because in the
judgment of Governor Jenkins it was
only fair to pass the affair around,
thus giving each town which has a
company a chance to entertain the
boys. Next year it may go'to Shaw-
nee or Kingfisher. This is the idea
the governor has of the n\atter and he
believes it is right and proper.
General Jamison has discovered
new and cheap horse feed.
and some bones. The bodies of two
o her men lie across those that were
on their knees and looked as though
they never knew what happened to
them. They must have been suffocat-
ed before the flames reached them.
As soon as the five bodies were
found the tug, Kennedy, returned to
the harbor at once and notified the
coroner of the discovery. While this
was going on strong efforts were be-
ing put forth to reach the men impris-
oned In the tunnel whose air supply
had apparently been shut off entirely
by the burning of the compressed air
machinery. At times it was thought
that various noises could be heard
In Session Today For Reorganization
Purposes—Those Present.
An important meeting is being held
in the city tq^ay of the Oklahoma
board of dental examiners. This is
the first meeting of the new board ap-
pointed by Governor Jenkins last
month.
The duty of this examining board is
to examine all applicants wishing to
practice dentistry in the territory and
to investigate the validity of the dip-
lomas of all such applicants.
The object of the meeting today 13
to organize the board, to elect officers
for the coming year and transact any
other business which may come before
the board. The first session was call-
ed at 3 oclock this afternoon at the of-
fice of Dr. A. C: Hixon.
The following prominent dentists
of the territory compose the board:
Dr. Sparks, Ponca City.
Dr. Detrick, Oklahoma City.
Dr. Kelsey, Chandler.
Dr. Waddell, Kingfisher.
Dr. A. C. Hixon, Guthrie.
Dr. Waddell of Kingfisher, presi-
dent of the former board and Dr. Kel-
sey of Chandler, are the only mem-
bers of the old board who were reap-
pointed.
The entire membership is present,
with the exception of Dr. Kelsey, wlio
is in Wisconsin on a visit.
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