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VOL. jftv. SEQUACHEE, TENN., THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1906. N -Y- GO SOUTH, YOUNG MAN. (Henry Watterson advises young men to pack their New England wal lets and make a le-line for Dixie. ) Away down south in the land of cotton Let its chances be not forgotten, Ixk)k away, 'tis its day Dixie's land strike for pay, Strike a bee-line straight for Dixie, Look away! Break away! In Dixie's, land you'll take your stand To make a pile in Dixie. From bleak New England's crowded chances Come where Dixie's luck just dances; Look away come today, Pack your grip and start for Dixie., Look away! Go to stay; In Dixie's land is fortune's stand, For there's health and wealth in Dixie. To the land of bloom and of sunny skies, sirs, Bring your Northern enterprise, sirs. Look away don't delay; Hurry up to make hay While the sun shines in Old Dixie, Look away 1 make life pay ! In Dixie's land are chances grand, 80 pack and off for Dixie ! -Josh Wink. THINGS I OBSEKV FELL FROM HIS HORSE Chas. Ashburn Seriously, If Not Fatally Injured. WH1TWELL, Tenn., July 5. -While galloping over his farm yesterday af ternoon, former Supt. Chas. Ashburn was accidentally thrown from his horse and seriously, if not fatally, injured. Within a few minutes after the acci dent Mr. Ashburn was removed from where he fell to the home of Joe Child ress, where he now lies in a very criti cal condition, never having regained consciousness. It is said thatDrs. Shirley and Turn er, the attending physicians, are alarmed over the condition of their pa tient. Mr. Ashburn is prominently connect ed. He is a brother to Rev. Dr. T. Ashburn, of Indiana, and Dr. John Ashburn, of Gallatin, Tenn. He is member of one of the best families in Sequachee Valley. He has for a num ber of years been the superintendent of the coal mines at this place for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, having retired from this pos ition the first of May of this year. ETNA MOUNTAIN. Ste!il to the Neivt. Visiting is the order of the day. Mrs. Mary Jolly and Mrs. Sexton and Mra Hale called on Mrs. McNabb Sun day eve. . If you want to see Ethel Nelson smile just name Fred Degnan. Ask Jess Simpson how he likes to go to the road to see Oscar Affit and go across the trestle and get a certain girl's water bucket and carry it home for her. He likes it all right I guess. Ask John Hale how he likes to hunt ground hogs. A certain young man said he would like to hang his hat on Mr. Jolly's fence awhile. Ask Oiss Douglass if he wouldn't like to hang his hat on Mr. Nelson's hat rack and watch him smile. John Mason and John Hale made a flying trip to Vulcan Sunday, s CrissDueless visited his parents Sat urday and Sunday. A certain young man said Bessie Jol ly looked sweet Sunday. Mrs. Mary Jolly is canning huckle berries. She has 54 cans already. Fonsey Jolly went hunting the 4th of July and killed a rattlesnake and ground hog. He is sure lucky, isn't he? John Smith was on the mountain last week. Sunday morning it was raining but that didn't keep the boys at home. They went to see their girls any way. Miss Nancy and Mary Keef called on Miss Jane Degnan Monday. Come on, '"Mrs. (irundy," we like to hear Jrom you. . . A certain girl said Oscar Abett look "ed sweet Snndav. We were sorrv to hear of the death of Mrs. Payne's little girl. John and Oliver Lane are visiting their parents at Monteagle. Pink. MINERS' WAGE SCALE the Commercial Op Birmingham. ; July 7. The head. Central nes signed the le today. This he roster, and ies are at work when last vea 0 Start Bank. 'ELL, Tenn., Julv Ut.-Citi ..ens of this place have nearlv subscrib- ed stock enough to start a new bank here, which is greatly needed, using the fixtures of the Whitwell Savings' J'.ank, now in the hands of a receiver. The new bank is expected to li ready fur business ulxmt the first of the month. Do Not Neglect Your Bowels. Many f-.'ri diseases arise f n -in inf lect of tile Imwels. Chamhrlain's Stomach and Li ver Tablets are a pleas ant and Hitreeahlo laxative. Fur sale by J110. V. Simpson. Jasper. Tenn. CAH 8'fMtart A 1 i Knoxville, Tenn., July fl, 1SI06. We promised last week to return to the conversation on the train. Refer ring to-misleading statements, it was stated on the train tnat miners at Tra cy City were making $4.35 per day when they went on strike. Let me state here that Tracy City miners did not go on strike. It was a LOCKOUT, pure and simple. We would not say that some men were not making this amount. We do say, however, that if one or more were making it they were few and far between. We say more. Prior to the LOCKOUT (not strike ) the average daily earnings would be much less than f'2.00 per day, even be fore deductions of expenses for powder etc. In addition to this they were not averaging more than three days per week prior to LOCKOUT at Tracy City and little (if any) better at Whit well. Another misleading statement was that lawlessness and disorder was char geable to the union miners. Union miners at both Whitwell and Tracy City have been (by many) condemned before trial. This is not only not RIGHT but it is also UN-AMERI CAN. We repeat that we stand ready for an impartial investigation pertain ing to our acts as compared to those of our persecutors, the T. C. I. & R. K. (jo. .N ot a union miner has sought at any time during the trouble to in any manner evade the law. To the contrary, notwithstanding erroneous press statements, they have been ready to assist Town, County, State and Fed eral officers to ferret out the lawless ones at any time they have been called upon. Refer to yniteu states w.arsn lal Overall, of Nashville, and his dep uties, or any of the Town, County, State or Federal Officers who have been on the ground during the trouble at either place for proof or the above. We sav here and now that the Unit ed Mine Workers of America are lovers of law and order and fully believe that any one of its members who would condescend or stoop so low as to be guilty of a single act of a lawless or disorderly nature would be one of its greatest enemies. We are organized for legitimate purposes. We are not seeking murderers, assassins or people guilty of acts of incendiarism for membership in our organization. We don't want them. We have no use for them. If we wanted that class of peo ple in our union we wouiu do apt to send our agents to visit the slums of the cities to gather them up as opera tors do 111 times of strike. I took exceptions to the statements when made on the train that the Un ion miners of Whitwell and Tracy City were the cause of all the lawlessness, disorder, burning of tipples, killings. shootings, turning convicts loose, etc. I hereby further register myself in de fense of a people I know by actually living among and being one of them tor htteen years, and perhaps betore we are through with the subject we shall at least show that the other side are not altogether ansrels. If the union men were guilty or all the lawless acts then it appears strange to me that under the pressure ot late months, being under State and Federal Injunctions, notwithstanding these m- nmctions are of a sweeping character, that not a single arrest has been nade for even alleged violation thereof. The mandates of the Courts have been strictly observed even to the extent of refraining from that which we fully believe the higher courts of both State and Federal will grant to us as our civil and moral rights. In addition to these injunctions state troops have been ordered to each of these mining camps by Hon. John I Cox. present governor of Tennessee, to the extent of nearly six hundred sold iers and their officers, and not a single clue of any misdemeanor chargeable to the union miners has been forth coming. Whilo the soldiers were at Whitwell, acting I presume, under the suggestion of a company agent, whom 1 further presume thought to make a rich haul by unexpectedly doing it the soldiers surrounded the miner's' hall on a Saturday morning when the union miners were holding their regular meeting. The writer was present at the meeting and was one of the speak' ers. The meeting was not in the least interfered with which was an open meeting attended by ladies, gentlemen and children, but immediately at the close of meeting all the men were or dered to form themselves in line around the hall and consider themselves under arrest. The ladies and children were allowed to pass through the yard gate to outside, all the others ordered to line nn. Then said agent, a resident of Whitwell, accompanied by an officer, marched several times around the men lined up, and the former pointed out to the latter what men to arrest, Twentv some odd men were arrested. searched and marched off by the sold iers to the barracks. Notwithstand ing this was an unexpected and un looked for arrest nothing in the shape of a firearm or weaixm of any kind was found on the parties arrested apart from pocket knives. 1 imagine the ones arrested were considered to be the most likelv ones to le armed, vet not a weapon was found. These men were kept prisoners and question ed at will without their having an op portunity to have so much as a legal representative present 111 their behalf. About eighteen of them were turned loose at midnight and four held over until Monday night or Tresd.iy. In addition to all this United States Mar shall have been appointed, and one jet remains at Tracy City. Yet those U. S. officers have told me personally that they have had the lwt of treatmetit from our iieople and have had no trou ble with them whatever, of course it is a nice and easy way for these cor poration to get relieved of exens that thev, and not the penpln ought to War. The cutsgory of thingM charged to the union men are lawlessness, dis orderly conduct, burningg of tipples, killings, shootings anu turning 01 con victs loose in WH, etc To all these charges the United Mine Workers of America pleads not guilty. If the T. C. I. & K. K. (Jo. will jointly co-operate with the U. M. v . of A. to establish law and order at these mining camps I am sure attairs can be exceedingly improved. Let them, the companies, quit selling or furnishing firearms ana wnisKey; let them nuit bringing in a lot of un knowns; let them quit being bo ready to stand bond for men who nave been guilty of willfully and maliciously vi olating the law, and this in itself will help considerably to restore order. We Know that during a time or in dustrial conflict such as is going on at Whitwell and Tracy City that any lawlessness or disorder occuring is largely charged to the union. In fact very many acts or violence, etc., nave been charged to the union that they have been entirely ignorant of, and the guilty parties knew before com mitting the ueeu or aeeus tnat oecause of existing industrial conflict it would be charged to the strikers, or men lock ed out wnetner tney were union or otherwise. Another feature worthy of passing consideration is that the union has lost a small per cent, of their once union men at both places (say about fifty out of the nearly twelve hundred. ) Among these are some who had been local officials and locally active, and their falling away buoyed the company up with a false hope, ihe company would nautrally conclude that if the union' local leaders would themselves break ranks, then the rank and file would soon follow. This has not, nor is it likely to occur. Among those who have broken rank are some the union has done the most for, together with some who were the most radical of the union ; and strange as it may appear they are those whom the company would not under any circumstances employ in or about their works on ac count of their radicalism. The mo ment these men denounced their un ion, however, regardless of radicalism or other objectionable features, they immediately became suitable charact ers for employment. It's not the un ion men the company objects to, many of these men they would like to have very much. In fact the greatest sur prise to the company has been, and now is, the tenacity with which the men have held on to their union. 1 hey hold today. THEY INTEND TO, AND WILL HOLD. No, it is the Un ion and not the men that the company objects to, the proof of this is the com pany s readiness to employ any desert er the union may have. Referring to the incendiarism and turning convicts loose, there of 18!)2, there was no union there at that time and consequently the union could not have been responsible for it. We know that men who are now working for the company, who were non-union men then and are non-union men now, have told and can now tell some inter esting tales relative to that affair, hence this again proves that it is the union, not the men, that are objection able to the company. One of these travelling men said that if a union man asked him not to work he would shoot him down like a dog. Let us consider for a moment, that in the event union miners were asking men to refrain from going to work (which we believe we have a right to do under such circustances, in a per suasive manner) and which we believe the higher courts will grant :is when brought before them, which is the greater violation of Divine, moral or civil law to ask, under circustances of this kind and in a persuasive manner, a man to refrain from going to work, or to shoot a man down like a dog. for so small an act t Answer for yourselves. Next week wo will have something to say in a kindly manner to those now working 111 and about the mines at Whitwell and Tracy City. I am, Yours for right, JOE VASEY. UNCLE GID'S LETTER. People generally always talk about the things nearest to their hearts Among the News correspondents almost any close observer can very nearly lo cate what is uppermost in each mind, Without a single exception the young correspondents of the News have but one theme and that is love. While they don't say so yet indirectly they do. They think more of that than anything else. Now young folks I am not scold ing you. I know you just can't help it. Its natural. Its a part of your life and pervades the human family as nothing else does and no one is abso utely free from it. A girl or boy that does not have it has yet to be born, Why the old man can't remember the time when he didn't love some little flaxen-haired lass and I've not out grown it yet and I really don't believe I can. In fact I ain't trying. Don't want to. Do you? I should say net. No one wants to outlive his or her love so I am not surprised when I read "Goo-goo Eyes'" "Smiling Girl" or "Rosebud" and many others all hav ing tne gift of love, the greatest of all the gifts to the human family but young people let ine advise you about this tremendous force and don't let it deceive you and ruin you. You may love but love wisely. It is said that perfect love casteth out all fear. So it does in spiritual things but don't trust it too far between the sexes. Did you ever read the story of poor heart broken Valeria T she loved and mar ried but alas she married a bigamist. Well, folks, I was at Flat Branch recently and went to meeting. Had splendid meeting but I think there are some boys in that section hardly civil ized, from their conduct' going home or rather to the place where liquor is Played at Red Hill. The Sequachee Base Ball team play ed the Red Hill team at Red Hill Sat urday losing by the score of 7 to a. Only five innings were played, as the game was not called until nearly o'clock, and several f the Sequachee team had to catch a train at Shirley's Switch to get home. A heavy rain, which fell at noon made the grounds very wet, and did not improve the ball playing. The Sequachee boys are under obligations to Mr. 'ihomas, of tied Hill for dinner, the (Jlub being dined at his expense. There was no rowdyism at the picnic nor at the ball game, which the Sequachee boys greatly regret could not'have been played to nine in nings. Col. Ab Moore, a professional. assisted the Red Hill boys and was whole team in himself. The Red Hill team will be down to play the locals Saturday, June 21, and a closely con tested game is expected. The occasion was a picnic at Red Hill, of the union Sunday school which was very well attended, with speeches in the school house in the morning and evening and dinner op the ground after the rain. Old Chronic Sores. as a uressing ior oiu chronic sore there is nothing so good as (jhamixT Iain's Salve. While it is not advisabl to heal old sores entirely, thev should l kept in a good condition for whii this salve is especially valuable. F s;d by Tenn. Jno. W. Simpson, Jasper, lUiachinerv Repairs I CASTINGS of All Kinds Promptly Supplied Why sind your work out of thi valliy whin It can bi doni chiapir at homo? Hilp build up your own sietlon. MARKET PRICE PAID FOR CAST IRON SCRAP. OOKliKSPONDKNCK SOLICITED. BLACKLOCK FOUNDRY, BLAKESLEEGAS & gSou.E E1C.NES. "MT MTTSIMIM, TENN. Egypt Cove. sold. I learned that a couple of widow women were dispensers of the stuff. Grundy county has a mighty sorry set of officers or they would put a stop to such lawlessness. I have had to get people to reading me and I am satisfied they are now, and I feel under obligations to raise their thoughts if possible. I am not writing for fun or to pass off the time, but with the hope of making them bet ter. I've said but little on hatred, en vy or malice, which is so prevalent among us all ; or of the true spirit of man and womanhood or of warm hearts beating in kindly bosoms. Heaven forbid we should lose the old hospit able spirit. Well, boys, I have a few things ;ainst you. Some of you are the most ill-mannered set I ever saw. You seem to have no respect for the House of God. I saw one of you smoking a cigarette in the church and told him to quit. Then crowding in the aisle so people could hardly get out was very ungentlemanly and you did it night after night. Y'ou didn't even seem to espect anybody or anvthing went home whistling and cutting up and two proposing to fight." Such was your condust at Pleasant Hill last month Kids, your daddys ought to larrup you real good. You run in and out of the church all through services and I really do think you ought to be indict ed, especially the one who shot off his pistol five times near the church. think his name is known and proof is abundant. Your parents ought to see after you or pay a fine for you, one or the other or both. There are plenty of nice boys to imitate but fast boys are not 'wanted anywhere. Do like the Dancers. They imitate their leaders. You pick out some gentlemanly young man and imitate him. No lady ought to notice such boys. Yes, and some girls are as bad if not worse than the boys. Who can love such girls? My notion is a few indictments are absol utely necessary. UNCLE GID. Special to the Newt, Rain continues to fall upon the just and the unjust alike. Corn, garden stuff and snakes look fine in these parts. Last evening, as the sun began to sink behind the western hill and the twilight began to gather, there began to assemble at the genial home of the grandfather of little Miss May Strown a merry party of youngsters to cele brate the 14th birthday of little May and at this home refreshments were served and games played. The occas ion will never be forgotten by these "youngsters' as long as they live and Mr. Roope continues to give May birthday parties. Go it children while you are young. You are now in the golden age of your existence that will never come again. - iTor. AdKins or Whiteside is very sick. ' Samuel Hale of Xtiverside is among his many friends here today. Mrs. Hale . is visiting her mother Mrs. Christian on Etna Mountain where she can breathe the fresh air of Heaven and where she used to live and breathe this air which made her look so blooming and pretty in her younger days. There are quite a lot of the old cit izens returning on this 4th of July rate to see old friends and neighbors. Come on children. This is the happy land of your youth. James Martin spent the 4th with his mother at Sequachee. Chickens and other things are ripen ing very fast in the hollow and if some Methodist preacher would come around here a few days he could get that lean, hungry look off his face which is so common among them. Ice is the only cry now. Well I guess you will tire of this so I had better quit. bay some of you readers, are you bothered with the candidates mucht They are as thick as fleas on both sides of the state line but these Tennessee candidates are more anxious than .the others as we have too many parties, here. May God bless every reader of the News, and may the blessings of the great ruler of the Universe pour out upon the Editor and may the people continue to run after his' paper. Lamplighter. to HAND SHOT OFF. Oscar Mays Injured In Blast at Whitwell. Mine NOTICE. I will be at Jasper on MonJi.- of each week. All parties desiring den tal workwlll pie me call at the Hughes House. N. H. MOORE, Dfxh-i. WHITWELL, Tenn., Julv 6. (Spe cial. ) Oscr Mays, a miner, had a hand shot off here today by a blast in the mines. Mays had just fired a shot and was at such a distance off that he supposed himself safe, but a piece of slate hurled in his direction struck his hand, tearing off two fingers and shat tering the bones very badly so that am putation may be necessary. A Tragic Finish. A watchman's neglect permitted a leak in the great North Sea dyke which a child s finger could have stopped, to Itecome a ruinous break, devastating an entire province of Holland. In like manner Kenneth Mclvher, of Vance lxro, Ma, permitted a little cold to go unnoticed until a tragic finish wim onlv averted by Dr. King's New Dis covery. Ho writes: "Three dixtors gave "me up to die of lung inflamma tion, caused by a neglected cold: but in. King s jncw Lhscovery saved my life." Guaranteed best cough and cold cure, at all druggists, .'sic and f 1.in. Trial lxttle free. Whiteside. Special to the Newt. Rainy weather is the order of the dav. Ask Chris Douglass how he like3 carry coal and watch him grin. Jess Simpson said Miss Bessie was sure good looking with a long dress on. Mrs. Delia Allison and family are visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary Jolly. Dave Simpson has gone off for a vis it of a few days. Jess Simpson said he thought Bessie Jolly was the prettiest girl on the mountain. The boys had a good time down on the platform last night. Mrs. Lizzie Degnan and Liza Simp son and Mrs. Ellen Nelson went berry picking the other day. Henry Nelson gave Mr. Brumley's store a call Sunday. We had a wedding here last Sunday. Chas. Smith and Miss Tinnie Hartman were married. As sure as 'the vine grows around the stump, Chris Douglass is my darl ling sugar lump. Sleeping Beauty. Bowel Complaint in Children. During the summer months children are subject to disorders of the bowels which should receive caretul atten tion as soon as the first unnatural loos ness of the liowels appears. The best medicine in use for bowel complaint is Chamberlain's Colic , Cholera and Di arrhoea Remedy as it promptly con trols any unnatural looseness of the bowels. For sale bv Jno W. Simp son, Jasper, Tenn. Funeral of Mrs. Tanner. WASHINGTON, July 5. The funer al of Mrs. Tanner, wife of James Tan ner, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of tho Republic, who was killed in an automobile le accident at Helena, Mont , was held here today. The lxxly was interred in the national cemetery at Arlington. Otticers of the Legion of Li yal Wom en and the Ladies' Ar.xiliary of the Union Veteran Legion, w:th which Mrs. Tanner was Hiliiiat-d. were pres ent at the church and at the grave. Among the floral tributes was a hand some wreath from President and Mrs. Roosevelt. EXPLOSION NEAR JASPER On Southern Railway Results In Injury of Pour Men. As a result of alleged carelessness up on the part of the man handling the drill, a charge of giant powder, which was being put into a hole for the pur pose of blasting out a cut, was explod ed Wednesday afternoon of last week about 4 o'clock in camp No. 2 of Yan dell & Bro. , near Jasper, and four men severely and one slightly burned about the face and body. Those burned are Lon Yandell, a member of Yandell & Bro., T. A. Al lison, camp foreman, J. L Tuder, Ed Tuder and '"Dutchy" Brownlee. These three last were laborers, J. L. Tuder and Ed Tuder being residents of Jasper and Brownlee a foreigner who has not been employed at the camp any great length of time. Yandell, Allison and Tuder are the more severely burn ed, Yandell being burned about the face, chest and arms; Allison princi- Eally about the face and eyes, and J. 1. Tuder practically all over. Brown lee is burned about the arms, and back and Ed Tuder escaped without any thing more serious than losing his eve-brows. The explosion took place on the af ternoon of the 4th as a hole was Jjeing filled to blast out a cut, the Yandells having a contract from Oliver & Co. , for the constructon of two miles of the Stevenson extension of the Southern. The powder, which was being packed into the hole, became stuck and a drill was used to loosen it. The drill evi dently struck the rock or some grit, the result being that the powder in the hole exploded, settng off several kegs near by, from which 'the hole was being charged. : , Cedar Springs. Special to Ihe Newt. Mr. and Mrs. James Lewis, of Fort Worth, Texas, are visiting Mrs. Mary McLain at this place and other rela tives of the valley. Miss Eliza Moore spent last week at Dunlap, the guest of Mrs. E. B. An derson. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Mitchell, of St. Louis, Mo, are the guests of relatives here. Mr and Mrs Ernest Smartte, of Mc Minnville, will arrive nest, week to visit the latter's father, Mr. S. R. Mitchell. Miss Ella Easterly, of Sunnyside, visited Miss Eliza Moore Saturday of last week. A gay party of young people from this place spent several daysof last week in Chattanooga sightseeing. Mrs. Cowan Harris, of Whitwell and Mrs. P. S. Harris, of Jasper, will vis it her mother, Mrs. T. J. Moore, the ast of the week. Rev. M. A. Hunt will fill his regu lar appointment t.here Sunday. It is also a sacramental service and large attendance is expected. A very hard rain storm touched this part last Friday, The lightning killed a mule and a horse the former belong ing to L. B. Daniel and the latter to John Griffith (colored.) The shock was severely felt by men who were in the same barn. X. , W. J. Gates of Whitwell, has api tinted coal oil inspector by Cox. lx-en ( ov. Jrii I ai KIDNEYS aiv stivngthened and toned v I !..!'. .ar-aparilla it cure ah their anmeu's, pams in the loins and THE BACKACHE. ARRESTED AT NASHVILLE. Charged With Obtaining Money Under False Pretenses. TRACY, CITY, Tenn., July 7. J. W. Gothard, a coal-miner, was arrest ed in Nashville today at the instance of Sheriff Meeks, charged with obtaining monev on false pretenses. Gothard left here Friday and is it was supposed he. was making for Nashville, the sheriff telephoned the officers at that place, giving A description of the man, and the arrest was made when the N. C. & St. L. train pulled into the station. Gothard seemed very much surprised at his arrest, but submitted quietly. Modest Claims Often Carry the West Con viction. When Maxim, the famous gun inven tor, placed his gun liefore a committee of judges, he stated its carrying power to be much below what he felt sure the gun would accomplish. The result of the trial was therefore a great surprise, instead of disappointment. It Is the same with tne mamifactirers of Chamlrrlaiii's Colic. Cholera and Di arhoea Remedy. They do not publicly Uast of all this remedy will accom plish, Imt prefer to let the users make the statements. What they d claim is that it will positively cure d: irrhoea. dysentery, pains in the stum ich and tuwels and has never lieen k::own to fail. For ssle by Jno. W. j-imiison, Jasjer, Tenn. EAD IT! Wht? Tb Nt. Mc