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Show FERRIS LEAVES I FOR BIGRAPIDS J. Gets Information He Came for in Copper Strike District Not Optimistic. jj OUTSIDERS NO HELP Mine Owners Throw Strikers' Furniture Out in Snow Pathetic Stories. Houghton, Mich., Jan. 9. GovernoT j Voodbridge N. Ferris finished his personal per-sonal work in the copper strike district dis-trict today and left for his home in Big Rapids at noon. 'I got what I came for," he said as he stepped aboard the train. "This strike cannot be settled in a week or j a fortnight. I think that if it were left to the miners and employers them3elves, it would be settled very quickly. It is the advice of the out Bitter, and this Is a somewhat venturesome ven-turesome thing to say, that Is likely to do more than anything else to prolong this strike." The governor said he thought the present an inopportune time for executive ex-ecutive action, calling attention to the fact that the judicial machinery ot the state is in full swing He said i he was unwilling as governor to do or say anything that might be con- strued by any interest as an attempt to influence the course of justice. Governor Meets Many Delegations. Delegations of workmen representing represent-ing union and non-union men came to the Douglass house in a steady-stream steady-stream but Governor Ferri6 managed to see all of them and to clear up his own calendar of appointments as well. Two additional eviction cases were related to the governor and it became evident that this phase of the situa tion is likely to assume major propor tions soon In this connection the governor was informed of the decision of the state supreme court at Lansing upholding Judge O'Brien's decision as to dilatory pleas. The men who told their stories were strikers from the Winona mine. The odore Besseuette said his furniture was thrown out yesterday and was still in the 6now. His wife and four j children, ranging in age from 10 to I 18 years, he said, were housed with neighbors. Josip Buriar, whose fa j P ilj -consists of four children, the eld est less than 5 years old. said one of his children was sick and that the doctor at Winona "wouldn't come for nothing." That brought action from the gov crnor. and turning to Daniel Sullivan, president of the union's district council, coun-cil, he told him to see that the strike relief provide a doctor at once. Sullivan Sulli-van explained that Buriar had made no report of the illness to his union Union To Handle Eviction Cases. Sullivan said he recognized that the union would have to meet the eviction situation soon. He thought that arrangements ar-rangements could be made for shel tering and feeding families in Halls of Commons, but said thus far the union had been unable to plan definitely defin-itely for the care of the furniture. Thus far all cases in which the use of plain force has been alleged have . come from the Winona district. The mine management explained to the governor that no evictions as such had taken place, that there had been some dispossessions where families had seemingly left the location and that the company was holding this furniture furni-ture in storage. Lansing. Mich., Jan. 9. Tf the members mem-bers of the State Grange can get the signatures of 45,000 voters to their petition, pe-tition, the next state legislature will be asked to pass a law placing a tax of one-half a cent a pound on the output out-put of the copper mines of Michigan The legislative committee of the grange in session here today also decided de-cided to attempt to bring about the passage of a law placing a tonnage tax on iron, based on a rate of 2 1-2 per cent of mined value of a ton of iron ore. |