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University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Clayton Enterprise and Clayton Citizen New Mexico Historical Newspapers 11-16-1916 Clayton Citizen, 11-16-1916 R. Q. Palmer Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/clayton_ec_news Recommended Citation Palmer, R. Q.. "Clayton Citizen, 11-16-1916." (1916). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/clayton_ec_news/55 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the New Mexico Historical Newspapers at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Clayton Enterprise and Clayton Citizen by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. r 4 M V ü Ü ü CLAYTON 1 U il KKN VOLUME 13 CLAYTON, NEW MEXICO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1916. NO. 45 ADAMSON LAW TO BE RAILROAD STRIKE IS CLAYTON TO HAVE IDAHO MAY GIVE ONE ELEC' UNITED STATES TROOPS TESTED BY C B. & Q. RAILWAY AGAIN ENORMOUS RESERVOIR THREATENED TORAL VOTE TO REPUBLICANS SLAIN BY MEXICANS ..Lincoln Neb. The Chicago Burl-file- d Road Officials and Trainmen Fail to Pincock, one of the four demacratic CONTRACT PROVISION IN GIVES suit in the federal court presidential electors chosen in ATTACKS ON here Agree on Adamson Eight-Hou- r Act Idaho, GENERAL PERSH- CLAYTON CITIZENS PREFER- to test the Adamson Eight hour law. was also a candidate for leg- Old Walkout Order Still Effective. the state ING'S ADVANCE FORCE ARB ENCE IN REGARD TO LABOR islature from Custer County and was United States District Attorney Allen FREQUENT. INTERVENTION IS elected, Idaho's electoral vote, instead AND TEAMS and several railroad men are named aa EXPECTED BY DECEMBER Cleveland, 0., Nov. 13. A general of being four for President Wilson, 13. defendants. temporary injunction yThe C. S. Lambie Company of Den- ,.A strike is certain unless all the rail- is likely to stand three for Wilson and agreeto General ver, Colorado has commenced work on is asked to restrain Allen and the oth roads abide by the provisions one for Hughes it is reported here to- Persning's forces at the ad- a half million gallon wateivreservoir ers from enforcing the law. of the Adamson law, President Lee of day. vanced base of Colonia Eublan con- for the town of Clayton. This work the Order of Trainmen announced this stantly are being attacked by Mexi- morning before he left New can soldiers, many of whom Car- when completed will prove of inestim- for York, Besides William G. Lee, the broth- wear short of a majority, they are counting where a big conference ranza uniforms, according able vaue to the town. The water sup- of the railroad erhood chief, at the conference were: to letters on the progressive elected in Minne- managers received from ply has been necessarily limited in the and the heads of the four Warren S. Stone militiamen now at the sota, the progressive-republica- n in of the Brotherhood town Ion y ago outgrew brotherhoods will be held. border. The writers also declare that past as the Louisiana and the independent in Mas 'of Locomotive Engineers, W. S. Car This statement news of the deaths of many American-soldie- rs its water facilities. "'Work on new is taken as indicat ter, Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- sachusetts, to vote with them for Jas. ing that the brotherhoods are expect- in these skirmishes is being and deeper wells has been progress- R. Mann men, and Enginemen; E. L. Shephard, for speaker. ing them to evade he law. suppressed. One million be- ing for some timeand when these and acting president of the Order of Rail- dollars is Prospects of a republican gain were ing spent in establishing new reservoir which is now in way Conductors, in the absence Mr. winter quar- the apparent thirty-secon- d of in the Penn New York, Nov. 13. Danger ters at the border, the de- course of construction are complete of a Garretson, who is on an extended va- militiamen sylvania district, where the canvass nation-wid- e clare. They Clayton will have ample water supply railroad strike, which was cation. expect intervention to of all Pittsburgh precincts today believed to come in December and some to come, have been averted by the do not expect for time The reservoir showed Representative lead Law Attacked in Suits Barchfeld passage of the Adamson eight-hou- r to be sent home before late in the is being constructed of concrete and Louis, Mo., Nov. 13. The Mis- ing Guy Campbell, his democratic op- law, has not entirely disappeared. St spring. Members of the-- militia write will have eight feet of the base under- It souri Pacific and the Chicago, Bur- ponent, by twelve votes. On the un- developed here today, when represen that almost every truck train which ground and well provided with set- lington & Quincy railroads filed in- official returns Campbell led Barch- tatives of the railroads and the four arrives at the border from Colonia tling tanks and everything modern junction suits in the United States feld by nineteen votes. Country pre- brotherhoods, comprising 400,000 em- Dublin carries the bodies of Ameri that goes to make up a first class res- District court here today against Dis- cincts still are to be canvassed. ploys, failed to reach an agreement cans slain in engagements with Mex ervoir. The contract price of this trict Attorney Arthur L. Oliver and Chairman Fitzgerald, of the house as to the proper application of the icans. reservoir is $10,500which, taking the Francis M. Wilson, district attorney appropriations committee, after dis new law. The stumbling block, both "The requirements of the contract that ev- for the western district of Missouri, last driver of an army truck cussing with administration leaders to sides admitted, was the existing mil- with whom erything is to be first class into con- and againB named employes of the two I talked," one militiaman day plans for the program of the win- age system of compensation. writes, "told me sideration, would seem to be little en- roads, o restrain the carrying out of that on his latest ter session, said efforts would be made sol- The announcement of the latest eight-hou- trip he brought the bodies of six ough for the work to be done An- do the Adamson r law. Dyer to away with the usual Christmas deadlock diers. He declared other significant feature of the con- between the railroads and ordered the defendants to show cause also that he has recess, so that more business could be not made a tract is the following provision which their employes came at the conclu- on Monday, Nov. 27, why a prelimin- single journey between the tranacted. sion all-da- y border head- our own laboring element will prob- t an conference between ary injunction should not be issued. and General Pershing's ably appreciate: "In employing men the national conference committee of quarters without being fired on." or teams, preference shall at all times Seven Taos Indians stopped over in the railways and the brotherhood Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 1 Action The militiamen write that skirmish - Clayton Wednesday be given to residents of the- town of and Thursday on chiefs, which had been arranged in against the operation of tne Adam- ing is constant all along the border as Clayton and no one shall be employed their way to Oklahoma. Manager September. son eight-hou- r law was filed in federal well as on the lines defended by the who is not a resident as long as local Rankin billed them Wednesday for a "We met," paid Elisha Lee, chair court here late today by the Chicago regulars. The Mexicans are poor shots labor is available which is suitable for regular old fashioned Indian "War man of the railroad managers and Great Western Railroad company. The they declare and therefore the Ameri- Dance." the work to be done." This is a time- - The attendance was large the conference, "to exchange ideas on United States district attorney, Fran- can casualties are few. The outlaws " ly provision in the contract protectng and many a little fellow who had seen the application and operation of the cis M. Wilson, and officers in Missouri frequently cross the Rio Grande in the labor of the town of Clayon many Indians only on the screen had the op- Adamson law. We failed to reach an of the railway brotherhoods were made their raids, usually on a moonlight of whose laborers are her best contrib- portunity of seeing and hearing some agreement, and we are not certain defendants. The complaint alleges night, on acount of the superstitious utors in all that goes to make a good, real Indiana and see them in the war that another meeting will take place " the law is in violation of contracts Mexican's dread oí a starless sky. substantial, pr"essive town.sThe new Ldance. This with William Famum in Strike is Hinted existing between the road and the men. The militiamen believe intervention reservoir is being constructed on the "The Bondman" was an unusual fea- William G. Lee, president of the Chicago, Nov. 13r-T- he seventh will come by December 15. By that town's property near the power and ture at the Mission which was enjoyed Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. railroad to attack the Adamson law time, according to their forecast, Villa all' when Buit ,or light plant and the comforts and ad- by spokesman for the employes in thel'PP81 an ia' will be in control of all northern Mex vantages ii will furnish the town absence of A.