NOTES.

"Old Hutch," a Chicago millionaire, cornered the market in wheat and cleared

labor.

sent to Australia.

Seven hundred men at Brooklyn; and 300 at Boston, have been thrown out of work by the sugar trust.

Whatever you do brother Knights during these perilous times of party bug, maintain your organization.

Long hours must go, child labor must go, land-grabbers must go, trusts and pools must go, starvation wages must go, special privileges must go, the conspiracy laws must go, monopolists and shylocks

must go.

Richard Griffiths, General Worthy Foreman, was selected to split the mortar with a silver trowel at the ceromony of laying the foundation stone of the bricklayers' new headquarters in Chicago on Labor Day.

The Knights of Labor of Quincy, Ill., have formulated a bill to be presented to the next Legislature, which has for its object the amelioration of the condition of the "city slave girls" as exposed by the Chicago times.

There are 3,000 female telegraph operators in England earning from $300 to $1,000 year. The telegraph being a branch of the civil service in England it is necessary for them to pass a competitive examination before employment is given them.

The steamboat pilots at Pittsburg, who recently joined the Knights of labor, have presented a scale of wages to the river coal men. The scale provides for a yearly salary of $1,600, with $2,200 for captain and pilot combined. Single trips to Cincinnati, $150, and to Louisville $175, the owners of the boats to pay the expenses of going to and from the vessel. The scale must be signed by next Friday. Similar action, it is said, will be taken by

the Pilots' Assemblies in Cincinnati, Louisville, Cairo, Evansville, St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans.

"The surest way to reveal your weakness is to hide your motive."- "That evil and desperate men may be found among us, who, for selfish purposes, are

ready to defy the laws, is not marvelous

that the men who are intrusted with the execution of law should, in so many instances, appear to be in league with the law-breakers, guaranteeing them immunity in their transgressions, is certainly alarming.”

A conspiracy has been discovered in Chicago having for its object the marriage of innocent girls to Chinamen of that city. The victims were brought from Milwaukee and after being drugged into insensibility, were delivered to the Chinamen, who paid $25 to the agency; which was conducted by Sam Wah and his white wife. It is said that fifteen white Milwaukee girls have thus been disposed of to the Chinamen of that city. Wah and his wife have been arrested and are now in jail.

L. A. 3837, Washington, D. C., steelplate bank-note printers, are in a decidedly happy frame of mind, for their arduous labors with the House of Representatives had its effect inasmuch that the House has passed the bill requiring the government securities, etc., to be printed in the highest style of art on hand roller presses. Their committee has worked effectively and unceasingly for several months. L. A. 5304 of New York, and composed of the same craftsmen, are also entitled to a good share of the credit of this victory.

CORRESPONDENCE.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Do not wait till the last moment to write up your monthly letter. Send it in at any time, the sooner after you read this the better. The first opportunity you have is the best time.

WHITE WATER, Wis., Oct. 12, 1888.

Editor Magazine:

It was with pleasure that I read the October number of the Magazine, for since I left home last spring I have not been able to get them regular and now when I do get one it seems like a letter from home. I was also pleased to read two long letters from my old Assembly No. 3343 in this number, which is sufficient proof that the boys at North Platte, Neb., have not forgotten the good of the Order; and I see also from one of these letters that L. A. No 3343 have taken at least one step forward in the educational branch by establishing a good library in the Assembly, and I would like to see more of them follow their example for I am sure it is needed and needed bad enough in some localities. I never knew the true situation of the working classes until I went South last spring, and when I got on that Gould system and saw for myself I was not a bit surprised at there loosing their strike a few years ago for they are afraid to say that their soul is their own. I went into the shops in Topeka Kan., and I got to talking with one of the boys and asked him if the men were organized he said "Oh! my, no; the boss would fire a man in a minute if he knew that he belonged to a labor organization." This though is not on the Gould system for that is still worse. I visited one Assembly in Texas and they had a candidate to initiate that night and there was not one member in the hall that could instruct him in the work of the Order, but then after all who have they to blame for all this no body but themselves for they have the means to educate themselves if they will only take advantage of it. If they will only subscribe for some labor paper or magazine and read them after they get them they will be a great help to anyone. Take the Union Pacific Employes' Magazine for instance, or the Journal of United Labor; either of those are very instructive and I would not be without them if they should cost three times the amount now, for I think the knowledge obtained would be very cheap then. Thanks to Brother Powderly for the lecturers which he has put in the field, for I think they have done a vast amount of good already, I only wish the number could be doubled so that the good work could go so much faster; but I think the time is coming and not far distant when labor will stand on equal footing with capitol and the laborer of to-day will cease to be a slave to any one person or body of persons,

From now untii the 6th of Nov., everybody is the workingman's friend, but wait until after election then walk up to some great politician and ask a favor of him and see where your friends ave gone; you will find that they have all dis

appeared. Sc workingmen of the land do not let those silver-tongued orators play you for suckers any longer but walk bravely up to the polls and cast your ballot for the man you think will do you the most good, Mr. Streeter for instance. yours in the noble cause of labor.

P. H. MCGLONE.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. T., Oct. 21, 1888.

Editor Magazine:

We are having grand times here just now, what with election, and expecting a cargo of new machinery comprising lathes, planer and screw cutter, and then the probability that more hands will be employed, for it is rumored that we are to have four engines in the shop at one time. Everything seems to be all right except one, it appears to be the idea just now that although we are working but nine hours per day the amount of labor performed will compare very favorably with what was performed in ten hours a short time since.

Engine 1274, of the Wyoming division, was finished on Saturday the 20th, and it would have made you laugh heartily if you could have heard the hurrah and seen the commotion here previous to her leaving the shop.

I was very sorry to learn of your illness and hope you have fully recovered ere this. Please accept my thanks for the favor of your reply and contents.

We are still working nine hours in the shops and five on Saturdays and piles of work laying around untouched, for here is all the pioneer engines from every division on the system: the old Rodgers & McQueen, from the days of '68, we still bolster and varnish. Engine 340, that exploded and killed her fireman last spring, may be turned out again by Christmas, as Chas. Dunlap and two boiler makers consist her gang. Engine 1203, the yard engine from Ogden, is ready for her wheels. Engine 517 is high on blocks and would look well besides Stephenson's "Rocket." Engine 1203 is nearly finished. Engine 950 is up from Green River, a running sample of dirt and decay.

The engines that are in shape are scarcely ever in the round-house; extras and sheep trains night and days.

Sam. Wheeler has resigned the night job in the round-house. Sam. did not believe in building pilots and caulking flues.

Pat. Murray is acting general foreman and everything seems to run along smoothly.

Jack Vampley has come back from the Central Pacific. He likes the mild climate of Wyoming as compared with the high winds of Terrace.

Mr. King has returned from St. Louis, and our Tommy smiles once more.

Kennedy has returned from his trip to Nebraska where he went to see the bairns. They are in good hands.

Things have been very quiet in this thriving burg during the past month. A cold snap during the last few days brought sharply to the mind of the poor man that winter was at hand, I say to the mind of the poor man for to him alone comes the dread of cold weather, he knows what it is for the thermometer to be 20° below zero and coal at $7.50 and Colorado hard coal at $12.50 and $11.00 to $16.00 for Pennsylvania. With short time and small pay winter has an aspect to the poor man that the well-to-do man knows nothing about. I once heard a rich man exclaim. that the workingman was too extravagant. We can imagine how extravagant a man can be on $1.65 per day, especially if he has a family. What a pity we could not make men who thus express themselves try a winter or two on $1.65 a day. We have a paper here called the Tribune, the editor this week says of a man who brought sev eral car loads of apples to this town for sale that a tax ought to be paid by him for the privilege of selling his apples. This is because the poor man gets a chance to buy his winter apples as cheap as the meschant, which is a thing this editor does not believe in. No wonder there are few workingmen who take his paper, that any should take it is to be lamented.

In the shops the old story is to be told of the best men leaving and none filling their placés. I regret to say that Brother Jas. Langly left us this month to take a position on the Northern Pacific at Livingston, Montana. Jimmy was a general favorite and one of the best machinists we had. A pleasant feature connected with his departure was the presentation to him of a handsome diamond watch charm by his fellow workmen as a mark of their respect and esteem. lose and Livingston gains in him a whole-souled and manly fellow. We all wish you success, Jim, and hope that you will live long and prosper." Another of the boys from the machine shop went off and got married and did so well that he is not coming back, and though Jim McMullen was not long with us he was voted while here a

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"jolly good fellow." Prosperity to you and your better half, Jim, old boy.

And still another leaves us. Brother Tom Byrne left for the West to look up the country and a location. Verily the machine shop begins to look thin.

A magnificent run was made by engine 818 the other day, from North Platte to Grand Island a distance of 137 miles was made in 147 minutes. This has a special significance for North Platte, as the 818 was built here from the ground up in the days when J. H. McConnell directed affairs here and this was a shop of some note. We would like to call the directors attention to this

performance and challenge them to touch it with anything they are buying just now.

We have elected Brother J. E. Grace as our delegate to the convention.

Seven initiations at our last meeting and more coming is the record of your STATISTICIAN.

SALINA, Kansas, Oct. 18, 1888.

Editor Magazine; Once more I will ask your indulgence in a few remarks before the District Assembly No. 82 con

venes.

Judging from all newspaper accounts things are getting lively all over the great American Union as far as politics are concerned, but labor also has its turn especially in Chicago, Ills. I think that street car strike is another exemplification of monopoly nursed by capital and only one-sided, all for the oppression of the creator of the wealth which the monopolist and ringsters enjoy. But such is the lot for the unorganized and for the uneducated workingmen. This strike may yet be won, but faith lost its purity in the Garden City of the West.

The 6th of November next every workingman in the great United States should exercise his citizenship rights and walk silently to the ballot box and cast one vote for the man, and men, that have the interest of every branch of industry and labor at heart, and not vote for men that threaten to finally swallow all that can be produced by the toiler without even the slightest remuneration; nor vote for a man on a ticket who favors scab or convict labor. This is the time for every workingman in the United States to say what he has to say. Brother Knights of District Assembly No. 85, if all of us vote one kind of a ticket the land sharks and boodlers will not last very long any more, the cattle kings not excluded.

Our Local Assembly holds its own.

General Lecturer Brother Morris J. Wheat, of Colfax, Iowa, passed through this city last month and I had the pleasure of meeting him at the U. P. depot on his way to Stockton, Kansas. He had visited McPherson the night before and told me he had a fair house. No general lecturer has yet visited this city, and that and hard times are cause for our Local Assembly to have ouly a very nominal membership. Still we will stay by the standard of the cause of labor through thick and thin as long as District No. 82 exists.

The weather has been Indian summer like here with now and then a cold wavé.

I am sorry to hear Brother Corbin has been sick so long and am glad to know he is at his post again. Shake!

L. E. from this point at the annual convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, accompanied by his charming wife.

John Lane, painter, got his leg broken between the knee and ankle, about the 6th ultimo, com

C. C. F. OF 3005.

ARMSTRONG, Kansas, Oct. 16, 1888.

Editor Magazine:

As the company has adopted a more progressive system governing the qualifications of apprentices I will bury the wrongs they, the apprentices, have endured in the past into oblivion hoping that the company will treat every apprentice alike in the future and give every boy a fair show to learn his trade and not leave him to the whim and caprice of bosses. Some of the older mechanics are opposed to the high standard of education that an apprentice must have eligible to become an apprentice. Let any person examine the requisitions of the different foremen for material needed in their chirography and bad spelling, it would take an expert to know what they call for, as their chirography is a mere scrawl; and some of them cannot spell a word of one sylable, and still they claim it does not require a higher education. Why, it is all sophistry and ignorance on their part. I will watch the new system and give you pointers from time to time on the subject.

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Work in all the departments is good. house work very brisk, six engines in the back shop for repairs. Mechanics still following a nomadic life as they are leaving all the time. They call these shops "a stake" shops. It is mostly all repair work that is done in all departments here at present.

It is surprising to see the number of farmers' sons working in the laboring gangs in the yards and on the sections for the lowest possible wages, and the shops are crowded with them every day seeking work. I do not see how the Mills bill Row before Congress can effect them in their agricultural pursuits. It seems that they ought to be protected in some way. Probably the elements has something to do with their ill-luck.

All engines that is placed on the stocks for repairs has one-eighth of an inch hole drilled in each stay bolt from the outside of the boiler about one inch into the bolt, so as to insure that the bolt is perforated inside the boiler sheet. If water escapes from these holes it is a sure indication that the stay bolts are cracked; if found defective is repaired at once. If the holes become corroded with time they are cleaned out by small reamers made for that purpose. The work of drilling the holes is performed by a small portable engine and is fed by steam from the stationary engine that runs the machinery of the boiler shop, blacksmith shop and machine shop. About fifty holes are drilled by the breast drill. Take it altogether it is a tedious job.

Wm. Parr, a locomotive engineer, has left here for Richmond, Virginia, to represent the B. of

Gothard Renger, another painter, on the 16th inst., fell off an engine tank onto his head and shoulders and sustained painful injuries though nothing serious is liable to follow.

Andrew Biggler, apprentice in the machine shop, had his hand caught between the grinding stone and frame when grinding a plainer tool and severely injured his hand.

John Lee, mechanic, is off duty for nine weeks on account of an abcess or wen that formed on his thigh close to the femoral artery. John,. think of Job's patience and you will find great consolation. I do not believe that Job was ever in Kansas and had house rent to pay and buy food for four or five babies as John has to do, or his patience and fortitude would not have been so great.

Wm. A. Lerow, boiler maker, had one of his hands severely injured in the discharge of his duties and is laid up for repairs.

The lonely watchman still stands sentry in the blacksmith and boiler shops at the noon hour to report any person found smoking his old dudeen. A score or more of workingmen of the shops can be seen during noon hour on the hill side adjacent to the shops during sunshine or storm smoking their pipes and discussing among themselves the place to select for winter quarters to smoke and enjoy themselves when the mercury runs down below 30°.

Since your agent announced the demise of our correspondent I take it upon myself for once to fill a needed gap, as our brothers along the line no doubt think it should be done.

The pot is boiling and some of our politicians have been over-cooked. The tickets on both sides contain not a single man fitted, in my opinion, to represent the masses. Like children playing with fire they have been burnt experimenting and more caution will be required when seeking and selecting men from amongst themselves to represent them.

Our city has been much improved this year and many are prophecying great things for next year.

Public improvements have drawn hundreds in search of work here and many will know the full meaning of the word want before another summer's sun returns to cheer their weary bodies and relieve their wanting stomachs. Justness of God better expand a little here than a great deal hereafter. Fathers of children have mothers teach them greed is murder. Teach in thine own household what you would have others do to thineself. Better a heritage of this kind than kill yourself to leave a million and impart the canker to your offspring. Has not

the C., B. & Q. strike taught you that greed deadens the heart and destroys all feelings but for self? Had Tom Potter been taught justice was grander than greed the late trouble would have been averted as he inaugurated the system that brought it on, and he could not have staid it only by justice had he remained on the C., B. & Q.

At the coming elections anti-monopoly trusts, etc., will claim your attention; these cries come mainly from money extorters and office seekers and are deceiving. You can legislate to make a white horse black and then paint it, but to get a genuine black horse you must breed it. We have already too much painted legislation and society; let us make our children better than ourselves then when the grass is green on our .graves they will enjoy the fruits of our experience and teachings. Reason tells us greed cannot rule forever, some argue that it will while the world last. Such arguments come from selfish men and women that would not allow it to be altered if they could, but come it must. There are many ways to improve our condition, but intelligence is the main factor in every case; to read and write does not constitute intelligence, but to think. Colleges do not turn out as many intelligent men as our public schools. If necessity is the father of invention, intilligence is the God of the people. COOK.

Despite your notification to have our letters in somewhat earlier this month owing to the coming convention, I find myself fully as late as is my wont. This grave disregard of special orders I must ascribe to the fact of my waiting for something in the way of news, but I trust that even yet you will be able to find a vacant corner, and that our good friends at Stout be thereby spared the disappointment of "no letter."

Business at the stone quarries at Stout now, no more than at any previous occasion, does not afford much variety of item for the pen of the correspondent. The usual number of men are being run, about the same quantity of stone shipped, and amicable and harmonious relations exist between employer and employed.

We had a few slight casualties lately, about evenly distributed between the two quarries. The most serious was that which occurred to Brother L. Olson, who fell from a projecting ledge and sustained such injuries about the head and face as necessitated his going to the hospital He will, however, be all right in a week or two, and, I trust, nothing the worse for his compulsory rest.

The new cable car in the north quarry is now in full running order, and has astonished the natives no little by the speed with which it runs and the dexterty with which unaided it opens its doors and dumps its cargo of rock and dirt. The motive power is altogether a new idea-it is not an endless cable, neither is it any relation of Edison or Keely-and yet I will wager that the

man who devised it has as good an inventive faculty as either of the above named scientists. Should any of your readers (non-residents of Stout) ever visit our quarries here and go to look at the working of this self-manipulating substitute for twenty-five dirt wheelers, I would just give them one word of advice, either stand well out of range or bring in your pocket an insurance policy so that your kith and kin may derive some benefit when you sleep where the "woodbine twineth."

The stone syndicate, of which Brother James Lowe was president, after operating very successfully at Spring Canon during the summer has dissolved and most of the members have betaken themselves to other quarries in Dakota and Missouri. Brother Lowe, however, true to his first love has elected to remain at Stout, and is again plying hammer and reel at his old quarters in the north quarry.

Brother Lowe, who is framed by nature to make women "false to their own interests," has found time amid his multifarious duties to pay court to some of the belles who dwell in our romantic glade, and rumor sayeth that before the Christmas chimes ring out on the chilly air there will be such a dance and charivari as will shake the grey old foot hills, and loosen more rock than a regiment of Finlanders with drills and giant powder.

Our worthy Master Workman Patrick Gillespie is the latest addition to the many here who have gone into the livery business, and it is no exaggeration to say that the outfit which he has provided for the accommodation of those who desire to take an outing is all that could be desired. Brother Gillespie in addition to his sterling qualities as a staunch and eloquent advocate of labor principles, has also many claims to the title of the Good Samaritan of Stout; the sick and injured brothers of our community are on his free list for conveyance to Ft. Collins to get medical advice and nssistance. While generosity of heart and keen sympathy are his chief characteristics it may be also said in all truth that his manner of doing a favor is entirely after the method of those

"Who do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.

Brother Butcher is, I am afraid, developing a good many of the land grabbers propersities as evinced by the fact that he has filed on a couple of more rods of the rich alluvial soil of this township on which he intends to erect a mammoth correl. Already his deep-set posts are piercing the clear blue of our October sky, and a person at a distance would fancy that it was a Brodignagian nine-pin alley, where giants pitched rings and carried off forest trees as prizes instead of pocket knives and riding whips.

L. A. No. 3667 is in good position numerically and financially, with a strong tendency to still further improvement. We are anxiously awaiting the advent of the Lecturer, when we anticipate a large accession of new blood, and a corresponding increase in that earnestness and