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VOL. 11.
HONOR, AT.AHKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1918.
NO. 2408.
WILSON RAILROAD DICTATOR
LACK COAL CAUSING PRIVATION
PRESIDENT GRANTED
UNLIMITED POWER
WASHING l ON, D. C. Feb. 22 --
Owing to the conliual afforts of li e
railway corporal ions, to misinter
pret the laws -o their own advantage
and their a'xini-is, to thwart the
government, m ;ts handling of the
Tailroad systems of the country in
an effective manner, ingress. ha3
at last been ecnipelled by public
sentiment, to pass, one of the most
drastic bills in the history of the
TTn«ted States. Toe bill, as .’.rafted
gives the Pres.d'.nt of the United
t Stales a free hand unlimited by any
existing law, in the control of all the
railroads of the country, durng the
period of the war. The railways,
in the future slia’l be regarded as
common carriers, and shall be sub
ject to all laws governing common
carriers, in so far as the said laws
do not conflict with the orders of
tlio President. Virtually making
the President Dictator. The Rail
road Barons, were so fearful that
the handling of the roads would
be in any way successful that they
considered no scheming too under
handed to be taken advantage of I
by them. They knew, that the
government’s operation would show
up the hoggish system, under which
the companies had been running
the railroads and robbing the people
and so tried through their represent
atives in Congress to block the bill
if possible, but were unsuccessful,
as the bill passed by a very safe
magin.
BIG LEGAL BATTLE; PAPER
MAGNATES ON TRIAL FOR
RESTRAINT OF TRAOE
NEW YORK, Fob. 22—A jury to hear
testimony in the ease of the News-print
Manufacturers' association, of 18 East
•41st street, charged with being a com
bination in restraint of trade and com
merce, was selected yesterday before
Judge Julius M. Mayer, in the crimi
nal branch of the United States dis
trict court. The indictment charges
that the News Print Manufacturers’
association is a combination of 43 pa
per-manuifacturing firms, controlling
between 80 and 90 per cent of the en
tire output of news-print paper in tho
United States and that it stieffle
competition among members of t he as
sociation and Great Northern Paper
company of Maine, and limits the out
put so as to increase the price of news
print paper. The defendants are:Geo. j
H. Mead, chairman of the executive j
committee oif the News-Print Mann
facturers’ association and president of
the Spanish River Pulp and Paper
Mills, the lake Superior Paper com
pany and G. H. Mead company of
Dayton, Ohio all representing a daily
output of 670 tons of news-print paper.
Phillip T. Dodge, president of the
International Paper company, with a
daily production of 1,300 tons, and with
an additional but unused capacity of
600 tons.
Gcarge Cahoon, jr., president of the
jEaurentine company and manager of
| the Canada Export Paper company, a
selling concern which controls the sales
between Canada and the United States
with aggregate output of 800 tons a
day.
Alexander Smith, a Chicago broker,
and Frank .1. Sensenbrenner, who,
while not legally members of the exe
cutive committee of the News-Print
I Manufacturers' association, were re
garded by the government as belong
ing specially to that body, because of
their constant participation and au
thority wrhich they exercise over the
association’s affairs.
; Gordias H. P. Gould is president of
the executive committee of the paper
companies.
Mark Hyman, Claude Thompson, and
Herbert C Smyth are special govern
ment prosecutors ip the case, and the
defendants are represented by John B.
Stanchfield, Henry A. W|ise, formerly
United States district attorney, ex
Senator James A. O’Gorman, George
Gorden Battle and others.
This is one of the largest legal
Iflghts this state has had for many
years.
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R. R. UNION MEN
PAT
ILL STAND
IN ST. PAUL
ST. PAUL. Feb. 22.—The street
Car men are again out on strike
in this city; the ralway companies
failing to keep the agreement made
-with the men three weeks ago.
The last strike almost completely
blocked all tralic in the city, and
completely demoralized business.
The people were so completely dis
gusted at that tmo that the Trast
tion Interests were forced to make
peace with their men. But only
for a time being bowsver, for they
contiued to bring in scab3 and now
they reflse to take back the Un*on
men who were discharged in a body
previous to the last strike. The
Carmen are supported in ther de
mands by Organized Labor and by
tho entire public opinion of the
people of St. Paul. A program of
importance has been laid out by
tho Central Labor Council, whereby
a general strike In sympathy with
the Carmen is threatened if the
Traction companies do not abide by
their previous agreement. Several
cars which left the barns at 10
o’clock this morning with police
and scabs in control, were deserted
by the crews and left standing on
ihe stheet a mass of wreckage,
alter being stacked by a great mob
of strike sympathizers.
The mob stopped tbe ears, before
any bricks, rocks or other missals
were thrown and gave the police and
the men in charge of the earaaaae
scabs a ch''""' *? •’■•ok or stay and
be a target for the gentle shower
impending, most of them preferred
a whole skin to tbe glory of pro
tecting the companies’ property.
These tvere nagged through the
crowd with a few love taps and
warnings to keep off the cars in
the future or leave town; then the
mob proceeded to the business of
the day and when they were finished
the cars were l'aished also. The
companies are gaining favor by
theataning to sue the city for lack
of protection of property, so the
Chief of Police has ordered, that
henceforth, the pavements of the
city streets shall be left intact ami
that all scabs ehr.ll be searched,
for guns and registration cards,
before making any more attempts
to run cars.
The' business men are complain
ing, because of the demorilization
I of (heir business, due to the strike.
The Chamber of Commerce has ap
pealed to the Traction Magnates
but to for have not received any
thirg in the way of encouraging
news. Owing to the exxcreme cold
westher the strke works an extremo
hardship on the entire city.
1 AMERICAN KILLER
AND 1 GERMAN
CAPTURED
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 22.—
That the American forces are now
training in trenches in more than
one section of the Western Front
was evidenced by today’s bulletin
from the American Army in the
field. The report says that on Thurs
day, last, tno American and German
patrols clashed, in the Chemin des
Dames sector, on the Western Front
and that one German wa3 captured,
one killed and one American was
wounded.
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FUEL ADMINISTRATOR
MAY CONFISCATE
PRIVATE SUPPLY
NEW YORK, Fib. 22.—Only the
kindnes of nature is saving New
York, in the face of the present
fuel famine, from unimaginable and
an precedented death ate. Thou
sands of N-. w York’s poor are being
kept warm by the fires that burn
in the sun, not from the coals on
their own pitiful grate. A suden
forst wrould plunge thousands of
families into misery.
Already the fear of a contiuation
of the pes nt cold spell, and the
knowledge that they can buy no
coal has put sections of the city
on the verge of a panic. Sharp
winter-hinting winds early this week
brought out long lines of mothers
at dawn to wait for the opening
of the coal dealers offices and to
plead with distracted dealers for
a few pounds of the precious fuel
for their families.
In the Brownsville section of
Brooklyn these lines have formed
twice a day—in early morning and
late afternoon—while all clay long
men, women and boys stand near
the coal yards, hoping that when
the office doors open again they
will be among the favored few who
can take home the coveted ‘coals’.
They bring rude wooden play carls,
baby carriages lined with newspaper '
and await their turn, till the dread
ed sign goes up: “No More Orders
Taken,” when they turn back in
despair to their fireless homes.
In the big coal yard of Hencken,
Wiellenbrook and Co., at 5th St.
and East river, Manhattan, the del
very wagons stood horseless and emp
ty early Wednesday afternoon and a
sign in Yiddish on the door an
nounced: "No orders taken for coal
until March 1st.” Solomon Bros.,
at the dock above, stood looking at
their empty bins and expressed the
fear that they must go out of bus
iness. Robert Henderson, a coal
dealer of 179 Seventh avenue, came
in despair to the office of the Man
hattan fuel administrator, R. Schley,
at 65 Broadway, yesterday, to
state that he had closed his yard
and to beg for aid.
From 200 to 300 ‘cellar men', who
supply coal by the pailful orbagful
to poor familes on the West Bide,
have formed an association to press
their demands for coal, and many
of them have closed their ccllais
till they can get a supply.
Throughout the city, apartment
house landlards and jonitors are
loking in dismay at the scanty piles
of coal in ther cellars, while in
many the tenants have already been
experiencing the discomforts of un
heated rooms.
Up in the Bronx. Fuel Adminis
ter, Cyrus W. Miller, has stated
that if the suffering becomes too
acuto, he will requisition the coal
now in the Cellars of private famil
ies who had stocked up for the
winter, weeks or months ago, and
with this confiscated coal—for
which he will pay the market price
—supply the needs of the poor.
AUSTRIA MOVING TROOPS;
SWISS FRONTIER CLOSED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—Austria
has again closed the Swiss Frontier in
dicating that large troop movement are
about to be launched. It has been
rumored for some time, that Austria
was preparing for a new offensive on
an extensive scale. Austria's refusal to
take any offensive against Russia has
allowed her to withdraw many of her
troops, which had acted in concert with
the Teutons before the peace parley
with the Russians. These divisions
together with the troops withdrawn
from the Roumanian front are now to
be used in the new' offensive against
Italy. The Italian air scouts report
TERRY M’GOVERNPASSES
TO THE GREAT REYOND
NEW YORK,, Feb. 22.—Terry
McGovern, Feather Weight Champ
ion of the world, from 1901 to 1904,
died here today in tho charity ward
at a local hospital. Terry McGovern,
bettor known us the “Brooklyn Cy
clone,” was the wonder of the sport
ing world, when at the age of 20,
he won the title from George Dixon,
the veteran colored fighter. From
1901 to 1904 his career was like
a meteor through the sky and then
the star of Terry McGovern sudden
ly set, by his boing defeated by
Young Corbett. From that time
on Terry, ,vho had been one of the
cleanest of the boxing fraternty,
he had a wife and family who brood
ed so over his lost laurels that he
was finally taken to a private sanita
ium suffering from insanity and
had never fully recovered. Death
has finally come to liberate the
past pugilistc hero.
CHICAGO, Feb. 22—Because the Na
tional Red Cross Officials, have no
tified them, thet they could not ac
cept any funds raised by prize fighting
■the promoters of the match have given
notice to the sporting fraternity that
the match has been called off. Mr.
Chester Thompson of Cheyenne, Wy
oming who is the Manager of Jack
.Dempsey, heavy weight champion of
Wyoming, aiul who is the man that of
fered the purse of $100,000 today an
nounced his withdrawal of the plan.
Dempsey and Jess Williard were
matched to fight iu u«ac v u.v, on
the 4th of July. Thompson when seen
today said he felt very much disap
pointed that the Red Cross Officials
had seen fit to turn down an offer of
this kind as the proposition had been
made toy the principals in good faith
and with the l>est of motives at heart.
SEE HAND WRITING
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 22.—
The Senate seems to be able to see
the writing on the wall and the
Senators are vieing with each other
to do what the President believes
the most effective means of prose
cuting the war. They have followed
up the passage of the hill making
President Wilson Dictator of the
railroads, wth a vote approving the
granting to the President of auth
ority to buy and sell railway stocks
and bonds.
that four units of these troops have al
ready arrived.
The Italian War Office has been pre
paring for this new attack and are confi
dent, that the Italian forces together
with the help sent there by the Allies,
will be able to check any new move
by the Austrian forces.
BOLSHEVIKI ARE
RESISTING HUNS
VIGOROUSLY
LONDON, Feb. 22.—Reports from
Copenhagen say the Bolshiviki are
fighting with desparation to stem
the oncoming German Rush. But
that the Gemans are not having
the easy time expected i3 shown
oy tue distance covered by them.
They have captured Wolmen on the
Aa river about 50 miles north of
Rego anti 220 miles in a South
and RieshUsa or Rzetytso, close to
a branch of the Malto river, 50 miles
North of Dvir.sk and 250 miles al
most exactly South of Petrograd and
are now slowly advancing towards
Ostroff on the Velikia river and Valk
on the Sedde river. The Bolshiviki
have Issued a call for all soldiers to
rally to the defense. A Berlin des
patch to Copenhagen says that Ger
many has tienitiuded the surrender
of Petrograd.
Please leave your order at the
Nome Tailoring Co.(next door Neg
erstrom and Hagen), for coal etc.,
to be delivered by the Pioneer Kx
pres*. Orders promptly attended to.
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