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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1912)
I Candidates Seeking Nomination at Primaries, April 191 UNION MINES ALL SUSPEND WORK Vacation” Declared While Is- sue of Wage Contract Is Being Settled. '. ■ •Ä . . • India sapolis.—No anthracite or bit- uminous coal will be taken from the the mines by union miners as a result of the suspension which went into ef fect due to wage troubles. More than «00.000 miners, about 150.000 of whom are in the anthracite Held, will take a vacation, which prob ably will last only a few weeks. The bituminous miners will be out only long enough for the wage agree ment. reached in Cleveland, subject to ratification by the miners by a refer endum vote, which will require about two weeks, and it is believed the agreement will be sanctioned by a large majority of the men. The suspension in the anthracite mines will last longer, as no agree ment has yet been reached. Negotia tions will be resumed April 10. Suspension does not affect all the mines in the south, as the union is not so strong there as It is in the north. The mines of Wyoming. Wash ington. Colorado and Montana also will not be affected, because the union contracts in those districts do not ei pire April 1. * I .Jd Milwaukee Socialist Defeated CHAS. H. SKEWES | 1 I I I Republican Candidate for Coroner I am an Undertaker, engaged in business at the corner of 3rd and ('lay Sts., having the latest sanitary morgues, and all the equipment necessary for successfully conducting the Coroner’s office. When an autopsy is to be performed, the law requires a Physician other than the Cor oner, even though he be a Physician; and Physicians are not undertakers, nor are they equipped for the Undertaking or Coroner work. It is not necessary for the taxpayers to pay more taxes to establish a Public Morgue when the Undertaker has his own Morgues. If Elected I Will Attend to the Duties of the Office in Person Paid Adv. Milwaukee.—Dr. G. A. Bading, non partisan candidate for mayor, defeat ed Mayor Seidel, the socialist, by a vote of «3.117 to 30.T00. Of the 33 ald ermen elected 26 were non partisan and seven were socialists. With four socialist holdover aidermen. the new city council will be composed of 26 non-partisan aidermen and 11 socialist aidermen. Returns from nearly all of the 71 counties in '"le state, show that Uni- ted States Senator Ea Follette defeat- ed President Taft on the republican ticket and Woodrow Wilson won from Speaker Champ Clark In the state presidential preference primary. W. H. Barnes, socialist, was elected mayor of Eau Claire, Wis. STEAMSHIP POOL CHARGED : Government Bringe Action For Al leged Violation of Sherman Law. KLI NEMAN (Republican) Candidate for Nomination for Justice of Peace LENTS DISTRICT Promises Efficient Administration of the Affairs of the Of- fice. Justice Alike to the Poor and Rich. A Lents Man, Vote for Him and the Far Fast by way of the Suez Canal was filed by the United States government in the federal court here. The companies are charged with pool ing freight rates and rebating to con- cerns who ship exclusively by their lines. The suit is regarded as one of the most important moves yet made by the government against the so-called shipping trust which congress is about to investigate. It is alleged that by agreements, pools, periodical conferences and re bates, the defendant steamship com panies have acquired a complete mon opoly of the trade between the United States and the Philippines. Japan. China and other Asiatic countries. EFFORT TO END STRIKE Aberdeen Police Jail 61 Strikers And Close I. W. W. Meeting Places. Aberdeen. Wash.—The arrest of 61 strikers, including W. A. Thorn, secre tary for Grays Harbor for the Industri al Workers of the World, and J. S Biscay, editor-in-chief of the Striker s Bulletin..the issuance of a proclama tion by Mayor Parks calling on citl sens of Aberdeen for assistance, and the closing of all meeting places here marked the features in the mill strike. Hoquiam, Wash.—With SO regular New York.—8ult for the dieoolution police and TOO citlien police. Hoquiam of certain steamship companies en- has checked the International Work »rut in «mffir between New York ers of the World outbreak, which has irvta.ivd L*re since the strike in the sawmills began two weeks ago. The citixens have guaranteed pro tection to all who desire to work and are arresting the International Work ers of the World leaders and all others who violate the ordinances or who openly preach sedition and revolution. Raymond. Wash.—One hundred of the Greeks who were shipped out of Raymond Saturday returned to this city and were driven out of town with TOO angry citisena prodding thana