More Persons Killed and Injured Last
Year Than In the Spanish
American War,
Commissioner John McMackin, of the
itate bureau of labor statistics, in his
innual report of the legislature com
pares the number of deaths and inju- j
riesanvong the million persons employed
n the factories and shops of this state
;o the number of killed and wounded in
:he Spanish American war. He points
out that 700 toilers met their death •
through accidents last year and that of •
;he injuries sustained by 40,000 work- i
lien, 6,000 of these injuries entailed ;
lisablement for a period in excess of
three months. He contrasts this rec
)rd with the casualties of the recent
?rar, stating that only 280 were killed
ind 1,577 wounded in battle. The com
nissioner favors the enactment of an
employers* liability law.
llet ween 1886 and 1899 the number of
employes in 3,553 establishments in
creased 56,321. In these establishments
the wages during that period increased
from $141,184,845 in 1896 to $162,645,049
.ast year. The only branches of indus
try which do not exhibit improved
conditions in 1898-99, as compared with
1897 98 are the textile and building in
lustries. The decline in the textile in
iustiy is confined to the woolen and
cotton factories, and does not occur in
the manufacture of silk, hosiery and
cnit goods, or in an}’ of the other tex
tiles. The reported decline in the build
ing industry is more apparent than real,
is it is simply the result of abnormally
large figures for 1S97-98, reported by a
single establishment.
Comparing 1899 with 1896, the indus
tries enjoj’iiwg the largest growth are
slothing, public utilities (i. e., gas, elec
tric lighting and street railways), met
ils, machiner}’, etc., and leather, all of
which exhibited a larger increase than
the general average.
During the first three months of 1897
virtually one-fourth of all members of
labor unions were unemployed. There
after a gradual improvement set in,
with the result that fewer members
were reported idle each quarter than in
the corresponding quarter in the pre
ceding year, until the last three months
n 1898 and the first three in 1899. And
t was not until the second and third
quarters of 1899 that the number of
:he unemployed was reduced to any
thing like normal proportions. In the
third quarter of 1899 the proportion of
unionists continuously employed was
scarcely a tenth of the proportion in the
5rst quarter of 1897, and was Jess'than
half the proportion in the third quarter
>f 1897.—N. Y. Sun.
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In the Probate Court, District of Alaska,
Rampart Precinct.
In the Matter of the Estate of Peter b.
Peterson, deceased.
Notice Is hereby given by the undersign
ed, John W. Spencer, Administrator of the Es
tate of Peter B. Peterson, deceased, with the last
will and testament of the said Peter B. Peterson
annexed, to the creditors of, and all persons
having claims against, said deceased to exhibit
them with the necessary and proper vouchers
in support thereof, within six (6) months after
the first publication of this notice to said admin
istrator with the will annexed at Rampart City,
in Rampart Precinct, Dtstrict of Alaska, the
same being the place for the transaction of the
business of said Estate.
Dated Rampart City, Alaska, this 17th day of
June, A- D. 1901.
John W. Spencer,
Administrator, etc.