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17 I 16 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY. B1 i '' a ings along the route, soliciting sub jfji scrlptions for tho maintenance of her l party, and finally landed at Oyster 1 1 I'ay 'but she did not see tho presl I, ft dent, and tho expedition ended there li That is tho record, so far as the I1 I labor movement is concerned, of the I j woman known from Maine to Call s' ) fornla as "Mother Jones," labor agl Hi I tator and leader "Mother" Jones, H ' who is always at the front when there H is strife, with her battle cry of "We'd rather fight than work;" H "Mother" JoneB, who gets $5 per day H.l and expenses so long as thoro lis H trouble brewing; who since 1900 has H received a salary frorm tho mine H s workers' organization, and who is H 5 said to ibe worth any five men as an H1! agitator. H 1 The Scarlet Woman. H j But down in tho Pinkerton office H there is another record, one that H reaches back in 1889, when- "Mother" H t Jones was a well-known character, H j not alone in the "red-light" district H ( of Denver, but in Omaha, Kansas Hi City, Chicago, and in .Pan Francisco. fl That record covers many pages, H il but a few of 'the facts are all that HI i fl are necessary 'to show you tho char- Hj 4 acter of this petticoated reformer. H They say of her: H I V'VuJgar, heartless, vicious crea- M turo, with a fiery temper and a cold- M blooded brutality rare even in the m ' slums." M "An inmate of 'Jennie Roger's' m house on Market street, Denver, Bomb M twelve years ago. She got into M ! trouble with the Rogers woman for M f bribing all of her girls to leave her m I and go to a house in Omaha, for 1 which act she was vald a procuress' M fee of $5 to $10 a piece for the girls." H "Sho was a confidential servant in f Rose (Lovejoy's private house on Mar- 1 ket street, Denver, and with her sev- cral years." m "Was well known to Annie Wilson, W another Denver woman, who ran a M place on Market street, afterwards Kwi had a place in -Cripyle Creek, and M now lives in Kansas City." H "Known to Loio Livingston, with H whom she went to San Francisco." jm "Lived in Eva 'Lewis's house on H Market street at tho 'time Coxey's H army passed through Denver, and H took a prominent part in the Denver H preparations for their care." HVJj '3s known to Harry Loss, a piano H p'ayer at 1925 Market street, who H says he knew her first in Omaha in H 1894, when she lived in a house at H Tenth and Douglas. .She was then H selling clothes to the girls." wH "A sewing woman for tho sporting H class, living on Lawrence street K (name withlield), knew her itwelve or H fifteen years ago, when she lived jj witli Minnie Hall, and afterwards with H Jennie Rogers; says it was commonly MH reported that r,he was a procuress by H , trade," etc. H "Mother" Jones always was a H changeable being, ever since she was H known as 'Mother" Harris, in May, H 1889, when she leased the houso then Hj standing on what is now 2.114 Mar H ket street, between Twenty-first and m Twenty-second streets. IB She refurnished it from top to bot- Hilt - nmmmmmmmmmmmggg''mmm """ """ SEMI OTI?I?T C SEMI ANNUAL OIJlL jJlLJL. O ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE OF MEN'S and BOYS' WEAR You'll Have to Hurry To get your share of the bargains for this is the "best" value giving event we have ever held. Every garment on the floor is crisp with newness, being all new spring and summer 1914. The Store for &-& 228-30 Men and Boys Cggyg Main Street . ! I t torn and soon opened it as a "house" that atterwards became one of the most notorious in the city. Had seven inmates, who were known as "tho best looking girls on tho row." For several months took great pride in the character of her house and the class 'that patronized it. At that Mme, it was the mest exclusive house on Market street. Made a specialty of midnight lunches and social card games, at which unlimited gambling was in dulged in. Four months after opening the house had over $15,000 on deposit in city banks. Had a "friend" at that 'time called "Blackleg." He deserted her In September and went to New Mexico with an inmarte of the house. After that, "Mother" went to the bad. Took to drink and was arrested several times on the charge or drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Left her "house" to manage itself, and in a short timo it became one of tho typical dives of Market street. 'By November 15th she had spent the $15,000 she had on deposit in tho bank only a few months before and borrowed $2,500 from iS. H. Engel, a loan broker, giving a chattel mort gage on the furmiture in the "house." On December 20, 1899, the mort gage was foreclosed, the furniture sold and the house closed. 'Mother" Jones then became an inmate of the "Minnie Hall House." lAnd this is the woman the women and children of tho deluded call "Mother' Interesting, isn't it? San Francisco Wasp. WUl srr - i- r y , 1 Don R. Lewis and Jack G. Whitaker, the cigar men who have opened a fine new wholesale establishment in the Felt building The latest addition to tho com mercial life of toalt Lake City is the new wholesale cigar establishment recencly opened in the Felt building by Don R. Lewis and Jack G. Whit aker. Mr. Lewis needs no introduction to Salt Lakers and is almost as well known throughout tho intermountain country, as he is hero. iHe has made an enviable record in the cigar busi ness, as has his partner, Mr. Whit aker, who was formerly with iColis tino Vega & Company of Chicago. He has, on various occasions, been a representative of different eastern houses doing business in this, ter ritory, and is well and favorable known by a large circle of friends and associates, who will be glad to learn that he will be hero perman ently in the future. iMr. Lewis will be the active man ager of the concern, Inger 'Chamber lain will represent the company on tho road, G. L. McDonald and Rich-, ard Jennings will have charge of the "rfc retail department, the shipping de partment will bo 1n the hands of Ax tel Hertel and Miss Ethel Lawton of Ogden, will have charge of the office.