Show THE COAL COMBINE the price at which coal of all kinds Is sold in this city has been a subject of considerable animadversion in times past and is a crying evil yet the figures are too high as has been demonstrated at various times limes and in divers ways one of the evidences is the profits which result from the traffic as compared with the amounts invested and the risks run the latter being so 90 nearly nothing as not to require special mention another is an oc occasion cAslon such as that of a few days ago which comes along once in a great while but does not stay long enough to be diffusive of general good bo the community a war between the rival dealers when this bakes place we enjoy the spectacle of a reduction of from ten to forty pet per cent in prices and still the business goes on and undoubtedly makes something or it would cot be run at all if money can cam be made with coal sold at say 25 per cent off the present fi figures gutes it follows that oo hsum ers are being robbed of just that amount that is 25 cents out of every dollar paid in order that this kind of thing may be maintained and prices kept up to the high profit mark a truce is suddenly reached difficulties are brushed aside ard and the competition which alona gives the people practical protection is dissipated i we say practical protection protect iele advis ad vis 1 1 edly there is a law on the subject which was framed to meet just such cases but if it has ever been enforced we are not mot advised of tt it that Is 10 buyers have the benefit of a statutory regulation which cannot enforce itself arid might as well have no existence at all for all the good it does its provisions are sufficient too it Is aimed at combinations of or agreements between persons having tor for their object the controlling of prices of any article of commerce and makes violation of its provisions a felony severely punishable section 2 of the law la Is quite sweeping which Is here quoted im full for the benefit of all concerned sec 2 tt rf any person or association of persons shall eres create tte enter into beeme a afi ot or a party to any pool trust agreement combination confederation or understanding with any other person or persons to regulate or fix the price of any article of merchandise or commodity or shall enter into become a member of or a party to any pool trust agreement contract combination or confederation to fix or limit the amount or quantity of any article commodity or merchandise to be manufactured mined produced or sold in this state such person orr or persons shall be deemed and ad judged guilty of a conspiracy to defraud and be subject to punishment ail ab herein hereinafter af ter provided there need be no mistaking the meaning mean lnig of that language it Is 18 fie do signed to promote ote free competition to III necessary artic articles lesof of every day use one of ef which Is coal for the dealers in that article to make an agreen nent ww each other by the terms of ahiah prices are arbitrarily held up to bo t schedule ache dule designed and carried out by themselves is simply a violation of thi spirit if not the letter of that lax law 04 aas why it can be ignored others are enforced ed to la ind and will ill probably re an unanswered um Answered question this is the way sam small plots pu talt it I 1 I 1 in the grand order of drunkard I 1 there are degrees just as in other frai fra i organizations in this ona one therea are four the sheep degree the monkey degree the lion degree and the ho hog g d gre in thin sheep degree you get fet the wool pulled over your eyes eres neld come the monkey stage maybe some af pf of you can remember when you were taking the monkey degree at that stairs stage a fellow can tell more funny storla and sing more funny songs than anybody else in the crowd at ait the next stage the lion degree he wants tap to fight he is ready to fight anybody and everybody and the last degree in the grand order is the hog detree degree that is where the member wallows JA itt the gutter the official Offid lal records of the war of the rebellion consist of published at an expense of or about 4 a page says an exel ex Kange iange there ara ar still about fifteen or twenty volumes to be added to the work which was commenced in 1874 the well pala historians have recently been officially told to ld that they cannot indefinitely postpone the completion of the work bof spend money on persons persona not acao actuary necessary this from fro to the new aror york states the case forcibly to say the wafic of lt it it is in illinois and near afa the tomb of abraham lincoln the great emancipator that negroes have been shot down for the crime of seeking what lincoln called the right to labor and to enjoy the fruits of their labor truly the whirligig of time brings in strange revenges those who wish to send the boys at manila any little gammas Chr lamas present or delicacies have noo an ah opportunity by paying the freight or expressage on them thein to san francisco the government will then take charge and deliver the articles free to the consignees consig nees dont forget the boys it begins to look as it if they would be a long time away from home and little keepsakes keep sakes and dainties will be highly prized the big mountain in alaska Al ascal seen 00 this summer by the edbridge geological survey Is said to oe the highest mountain in the world it was awas disma ered in 1896 by W A dickey of seattle emd and mr monks of boston the desoo discoverers have named the mountain moun bemb ley leand and nd the indians indiana call it big man ich a do temporary thinks Is in real really the same name 4 |