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Show THE BEAVER W. K COUNTY NEWS .... Elsuick. Editor MILFORD CHURCHMANS ManuRcr. 8 8 UTAH left her In Chicago. For Union Workers Every hen will have to he tauaht to lay her egg under an automatic dating stamp. The romet with two tail la doing nicely In getting past the nature fake detect ora. T LOOKS euiiMili-nilillatter than it frt-- to draw a nu inker of land in the a quarter-sectioentitling mil In new Indian recently allotted for settlement in South Dakota. The total allotment was about 0,750 ction to nlmiit 8.JI00 rcii.rcred applicants. Tlio allotment was made in rotation from No. up, so that the holder of 07 9, for instance, must wait until !,748 prior numbers have made tlu-i- i selections, from No. 1 up. To acquire title, or to prow up, within It months, from $1.50 to $t an acre must lie paid in cash to the government, according lo the quality of the land to select from. Otherwise the tune to prote on is extended to five years, with of the total amount payable yearly. So that if a winner is within the first few hundred inimhcr and selects $0 an acre land the first and final payment to acquire title in It month will be ipUflO. Then lie (or she) will have to have two horses, with harnesses, wagon, at least one cow, some implements necessary to do the required lurid improvement, house, barn, well. These will cost at least $1,500 more and the settler cun use a good deal in addition if convenient, byi he should have at least $3,500 to start with. After 11 mouths' residence, depending on the location, nearness to a railroad uml the uniount of improvements made during that time, the land would jierhups In1 worth, according to the present value of land in that vicinity in Smith Dakota, from $30 to $35 an aere, or from $4,000 to $5,000. Of course many will start homesteading on less and live in a sod house to begin with und sulTer nil kinds of privations during the first few crop years. Hut I would not advise any out who is not accustomed to all kinds of hardship to start out to acquire a homestead from Uncle Sain with less than $3,500 to prove up in 14 months. Another thing not generally known and about which little, if anything, lias been said, is the fact that besides the land here referred to are thousands of acres of laud selected or set aside by the government for thu Indians. These lands are mixed in, ro to speak, among the lands allotted for settlement throughout the whole reservation. The ollicial map shows that in inuny instances a quarter-sectio- n or two is cut off here and then1, the rest of the section reserved, and then many whole are left in a hunch, reserved. The reason for this I do not know, nor what is to he done with this land. We all know, however, that the Indians are poor farmers or no farmers at all. as only n part of the Standing Hock and Cheyenne reservations was thrown open to settlement, the Indians have plenty of land left, about as much again, for them to hunt and fish on. So that many homesteaders will find themselves isolated miles away from any neighbor to visit or help to increase land virtues. Important Happenings in Industrial Circles in This Country and Europe $ $ quarter-se- 1 to tie good. Get into the new renaua by all All our best people are heading for It. me ana. Iluy your own home in the country, and become a erennlal Instead of a hardy annual. Paris enthiialuats who are planning to prevent the slaughter of African fauna are a year too slow. No fight against the hat pin will gain enough of a victory to send feminine fashions bark to bonnet strings There la no way for the houne fly to get arbitration In the war the Chicago health department Is making on it 1 Passengers In Prance who stayed aloft two hours In an aeroplane found the earth still running nicely on their return. When the fiorket wireless really conies Into use s man no longer will be able to forget to mall his wife's letters. Poultry farmers ran point proudly to the fact that so far as they know there is no such thing as eggine on Ihe market 1 Messages from Afrlra are to the effect that Col. Itoosevelt Is as hard as nails. This explains why the tsetse fly was stung. 8clenre Ig pretty good, but It has not yet Identified the whooping-couggerm, to say nothing of Isolating It out of the small boy's reach. What la sometimes paraded as a International romance generally provea to be nothing more than a sordid commercial affair. heart-warmin- g Somebody has enunciated the the ory that aleeplng In church la a Well, It will gradually diminish, bow that the golf season Is coming on ' Incidentally, take note that the latest life saving signal, which now may summon one take a drink or lend a dollar, Is not "C. Q. D.," but S. O. 8." die-eas- 1 woman of seventy-sevehaa been arreated and held In Washington for running a poker game. Which ahowa that one ! never too old to enjoy the good old American game. A lb-side- At the recent convention of the Massachusetts state branch, A. F. of L., the savings hank insurance and old age annuity measures were unanimously indorsed and the secretary was directed to send let. n One of the latest wrinkles In As kansaa la to raise large quantities of rice by an Improved American method. Every state can do something new and valuable to Increase the food supply. One of the oculists announces that few people are able to see things aa they are. This ta perfectly true, especially with regard to the ability ot people to see things which affect them personally. Aa defense onc-lift- h in a separation ault a tail chauffeur alleges that he makes only eight dollara a day. The wife claims that he draws down $110 a week. Of either sum any railway en glneer and moat college professors might be envious. Swearing in the New Tork subway was punished by a $10 fine. New Yorkera will please take warning and get out of the subway before expressing themselves. Swearing at and not In the subway la the more economical ' aa well aa appropriate. Texas Is coming out strong In many ways, and particularly In onion culture. That atate reports an extraordinary expansion In railroad building, development of sections heretofore unsettled, creation of various Industries In addition to farming and a big boom In onion growing. The Texas onion haa practically supplanted the Iiermu da variety In this country, a fact that almost takes the breath away. While on the carpet" In New York following a charge that he was violating the pure food law, a manufacturer of breakfast food declared that he discovered his product through ob serving the sleekness of hia horse while he himself was suffering from lie emulated the horse, dyspepsia. and aa a result Is now a healthy man This Is supposed to warrant the admission of bran and middlings to the breakfast table. The department of agriculture will live In historic gratitude If It can get up a cook book that will give the check book a vacation. ters to all the labor unions in the state calling attention to the beneficent features of the scheme. That action put the stamp of labors approval ujion one of the wisest and most humane economic measures ever suggested for improving the condition of the In my opinion it is only a matter of time when savings bank insurance will an adjunct of every labor union in the state, because its benefits need only to lie mentioned in order to la; appreciated. One great problem in the unions has been how to provide for the aged and the incapacitated. Some unions have in part solvi-- the problem by extensive lieneilt systems, which are excellent so far us they go. Hut hero is an absolutely secure and extremely cheap sysiem of life insurance and old age annuities presented and safeguarded by the excellent savings bank laws of the state, which entirely meet a our need. Here is an opportunity for trade uniunists to obtain for a trifling monthly sum an old age annuity or a life insurance, guaranteed by the laws of the state an opportunity which must certainly appeal to every I 'a re for the aged being one of the aims of trade intelligent unions, the annuity jHilicy offered by savings hanks which have taken advantage of the new law is in line with one of the chief purposes of the unions. 1 expect that very soon savings luink insurance will be a recognized and prominent adjunct of trade union work nml that every labor union. ist whose life is insurable will have O either a life, an endowment or an wage-earne- r. c wage-earne- r. to all my friends as a heartless flirt, write a young woman. My fiance objects to my Aining, hut I can't seem to cun- - iryself of it. lie says I must choose him and flirtin M'hnt shall I do? That depend on how much you think of the vonng man. If you have any gront mnviriemfion for him roil will give him up, for lie eulil never lx- - happy with you. You seem to lx proud of having earned the characterization of a flirt, yet it is one which any young woman should lx- - ashamed of. Promiscuous flirting is about the cheapest occupation in which a girl I am known self-rosxeti- ng can indulge. Recent railroad accidents, while More-over- , it seriously injures her prospects of securing a desirable they ludlcate no Improvement In op- husband if she happens to want one. e erating safeguards, at least give No young man. not even the one slu honors with lu--r fleeting attenof a gain In safety through more substantial equipment. For tions, thinks more of her for it, and very many persons think less. trains to come In collision with each The girl who secs herself aa others see lu-- r will never flirt. other ten years ago or for a section of She nerd not he a forbidding, sour-faca train to leave the rails at high speed prude, but six- - will indulge would have meant a larger casualty in no kissing, etc., with any man except the one to whom list than Is now the case. she is enguged to he married. evl-denr- ed hand-holdin- g, Pittsburg, Pa. Not only on the Bessemer A Lake Erie railroad, aa previously announced, but on nearly a dozen other lines subsidiary to the United States Steel corporation, la Sunday work to be abolished, It-- la learned. The order Just isaued for Sunday rest of practically all of the great steel companies employes In mills and railroads la to Include upward of 100,000 men. It la aald. Railroads on which the order la being put Into effect are the Youngstown A Northern, the Elgin, Joliet A Eastern, the Duluth A Iron Range, the Duluth, Meaaba A Northern and the Donors Southern and the Mercer Valley. Wllkesbarre, Pa. Upon the advice of officers of the mine workere' union the mino workere at the South Wllkee-rr- e shaft of the Lehigh A Wllkesbarre Coal company did not go on strike aa they had Intended. The union officers, hearing of the desire to trike went to the men and told them that they would violate their agreement with the union If they went out, end that the beet way to settle the difficulty was to have a committee present their grievances to the coal company. Berlin, Germany. The general lockout of the building trades workmen which haa been brought about by the failure of the employee and workmen to agree upon terms le on. It affects 400,000 workmen and the daily loss of wages will be $800,000. It la stated that the men have "a reserve fund of will $2,750,000 and that the unions not dlatrbute strike pay until the lockout baa lasted at least a fortnight. The men are opposed by an employers' league which numbers 22,000 tlrma. Washington. With the Introduction of Improved machinery In many lines of production, the movement for shorter hours became an Imperative necessity and la gaining ground from year to year. The first milestone was marked ten hours, subsequently nine and eight hours became the slogan of the advancing forces. It la still marching and never halts; every year more men and women are enrolled under the banner of eight hours. Cal. The federated trades councils have (Sacramento, to make reception on the visit to the capital city of the executive committee of the American Federation of Labor in the early part of May, If the committee accepts the Invitation extended. The laying of the corner tone of the labor temple will be made a feature of the visit Washington. General Master Workman Hayea of the Knights of Labor la preparing a program. It is said to be hie intention to have labor speakers go Into the districts of members of congress who, he believes, are being unjustly assailed by the American Federation of Labor, and defend them. He declares he will do this in the Interest of fair play and exact Justice." Washington. The last report of the American Federation of Labor ahowa that during the year 1909 statements were received from elxty-elgh- t Inter national organisations, showing that in the twelve months there were 603 etrikee, Involving 87,031 members. Of this number 53,971 members were benefited and 9.432 were not. Three of these strikes hundred and forty-onwere won. Cincinnati. Peace reigns among the telegraphers of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern and the Big Four i allroads as the committees arranging the Increases on the two lines hare finished their work. On the former road the committee arranged an Increase of six per cent. On the Big Four they arranged only the working conditions. The Australian coal Washington strike, which Is now at an end. lasted 18 weeks. The loss in wages which It entailed amounts to over 1,000,000, of which the miners will have to bear semi-politic- e three-quarter- annuity policy. Through an announcement that he aaw local paMr the Kcv. J. D. Laplrjr of Avondale Station, Blrminglixm, Ala., learned that he could obtain a free trial bottle of a remedy for tlia cure of indigestion, and aa ha waa interested, because he suffered that way, he wrote fur it The remedy was Dr. Caldwell's 8yrup PepMr. sin. Lapley, who la a minister of tha Methodist Episcopal Church, and a member of tha Central Alabama Conference, took the free bottle with the result that he wae very speedily cured. Mrs. Alice Northrup Vou or any other sufferer from conati-uitlo- n, indigestion and dyspepsia, sick leadarhe and such digestive troubles can have a free trial bottle aent to your home prepaid by forwarding your name and address It is the gentlest, mildest, beat tasting, most effective laxative tonic you ever tried. Druggists will sell you the regular bottles at EO cents or $1, and results are guaranteed. A picture of Mra. Northrup, of Quincy, 111., a cured patient, la presented herewith. If there la anything about your caoa that you don't understand write the doctor and he win advise you. Tha address la Dr. W. R Caldwell. SOI Caldwell Bldg., Montlcelio, I1L In hi i 1 San Francisco ought to take that little earthquake aa a timely warning Lapley Suffered Twelve Years From It How He Conquered It; You Also Can, Free. n rci-rutioi- STOMACH WEAK Rev. Ilum grub.' Wbat causes divorce? shouts the army of dyspeptics. Poorly oiKiked food often drivel men to drink and women to auielde. ft Pittsburg, Pa. A vigorous campaign for union made goods has been started by the local branch of the Women's Union Label League. Des Moines, la. About three-fourth- s of the Industries hero are asking for Increased wages, and prospecta are bright for confessions. Cincinnati. United Brewery Workers have gained a flat increase of $2 a week, averting about 1,300 men. Bismarck, N. D. The tarmers' the Society or Equity, le growing rapidly In this state. Oklahoma City, Okla. Printer have obtained an advance In wages. Streator, 111. This city now hae local unions. twenty-on- e St. Louis. Mo. The United Railways company announced a voluntary Increase of one cent an hour to all employes on local street car Hues, numbering about 3.000, effective on May 1. The new wage scale will have a minimum of 22 cents an hour and a maximum of 26 cents. Fall River, Mass. Twenty thousand cotton mill operatives were laid off for a week. Thirty of the corporations, mnny of which have been running five days a week since March 1. decided to curtail production next woek about 40 per rent., brenuse of the slack demand for print clothe. New York. The appellate divllon of the supremo court sustained the demurrer In a suit for $25,000 for libel brought by Samuel Stone as treasurer of the Cloth Examiners and Spongers' Union of Greater New York against the Textile Examiners and Shrlnkers Employers' association. The euit wae baaed on a letter written by the employers' association to the Central Federated union complaining that the plaint Iff union waa not living up to its agreement and that one of the defendant's employee had been blackjacked at the Instance of members of the plaintiff union. 111. The Springfield, report of Edwin R. Wright, president of the Illinois State Federation ol Labor, ahowa the federation to have enjoyed prosperity. If men and money were available the atate president le of the Impression thousands of new union men would be secured. The report of Secretary James F. Morris show receipts for the first six months of the fiscal year ending March 31 amounted to $6,036, with disbursements of $5,541, leaving a balance ol $495 on hand. Chicago. The 16,000 men needed to Install safety devices, as required by recent legislative enactment In the 800 coal mines of Illinois, will be furnished by the United Mine Workers at a wage advance of 5.55 per cent. It la stipulated that the advance la for the repair work only and la granted without prejudice to future negotiations. Under Ihe law the fireproof equipment, electrical fire signals and other safety appliances must be placed In the mines by July 1. Pittsburg, Pa. An advance In the pay of thousands of employes of the United States Steel corporation, equal to about six per cent., la aald to have been decided upon. The changes expected are principally for laborers and men getting less than $100 a month. Brisk business and scarcity of labor have aided in bringing about a better wage rate. At present the shortage of labor at Gary, Ind., Is aald to be the severest since work began there. Trenton, N. J. The John A. Roeb-ling'Sons company, whose plant In this city has been closed practically for ten days as the result of a strike among 1,500 laborers, offered to the strikers a schedule of wages on the piece system Instead of the day rate paid heretofore. The strikers decided to not accept the company's offer. More than 6,000 employes are out ol work aa a result of the strike. Boston. All union carpenters In thla city and vicinity are voting on the referendum proposition submitted to them by Carpenters District counclL The workmen are asked to vote on whether they are In favor thla year of demanding a wage Increase amounting to 2H cents an hour for all the car semi-annu- Didnt Care to Mention Hie Namo. presented herself the other day in an equal suffrage state at the place of registration to qualify for the casting of her vote on the school question at the next elecA colored woman tion. With what political party do you affiliate ! inquired the clerk of the unaccustomed applicant, ualng the prescribed formula. The dusky lady'' blushed, all coyness and confusion, la I blcged to answer that there question? Certainly; the law requires it. I "Then," retreating In dismay, don't believe I'll vote, 'case Id hate to have to mention the partys name. s He's one of the nicest In town." Ladies Home Journal. gent-mum- Had Rheumatism Couldnt 8leep. writes; A lady from Oklahoma City I waa sick in bed with Rheumatism, ankles swollen, couldnt sleep.' cured me. They are great." At Drug Stores $1.00. No cure, no pay. Write for free trial offer. Western Electro pode Co., Dept. A., Los Angeles, Cal. Elec-tropod- ea Impressed. think I shall let that woman rent my house. I Whyr Shes the first one whos called to ee me about It who didnt brag about what a good tenant she le." SORE EYES, weak, inflamed, red. watery and swollen ryes, use PETTITS EYE SALVE, 25c. All druggists or Iloward Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. Many a man tries to stand on his rights when he hasnt any. penters. Dee Moines, la. The Iowa mine operator! have conceded a five per cent, advance to the mine workere in ubdletrict No. 1 aa a working basis and provisional upon concessions from the mine workers. The mine workere conceded the operators demand that all new mines in the eubdiatrlct be operated on the screen coal basis. Washington. For the first five months of the fiscal year ending February 28 the American Federation ol Labor issued charters to 102 new unions for affiliation aa against fifty-twfor the previous year. The affiliated International unions Issued 460 charters during the same period. Washington. A special convention of electrical workers, regulars and seceders, la to be held in May to con fer with the arbitration committee ol the American Federation of Labor to settle, if possible, the difference that haa existed In the trade In the last two years or more. Oakland, Cal. Every retail shoe clerk In the city carries a union card. Thla fact makes Oakland the banner union city .on the Pacific coast so far as the retail shoe clerks are concerned. W. Va. The United Huntington, Coal A Oil company, employing several thousand men at Holden, W. Va., announced an Increase In wages for all employes of five per cent., effective on April 16. Minneapolis. Minn. The carpenters' scale for this city le now 45 rente an hour, and the membership Is approximately 1,700, which Is an increase In the last year of about three hundred. El Paso. Tex. Boilermakers In railroad shopi have obtained an Increase of 2 cents an hour. Cleveland. O. Wireless telegraphers have organized here. Scranton. Pa The Delaware. Lack awannn A Western Railroad company haa announced a six per cent. Increase in wages to all employes In the transportation department. This affects about 6.500 men. The switch men . are given an Increase of threo cents an hour, 1,500 being affected. Louisville. Ky. A bill to have all employe of the city work the eight-houday has been introduced j cuun ell. This will most likely become law. Troy, N. Y. 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