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44 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
0 RETAIL TRADE NOTES. p
The Powell-Scott Wood & Coal Co. has been
formed at Little Rock, Ark., to do a retail fuel
business.
Judge Stone has overruled the demurrer filed
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by the recently indicted retail eoal dealers at Jones & Hull have purchased the business of
Cleveland. The coal men maintained that the the Gainesville Light & Fuel Co.. at Gainesville,
Valentine anti-trust law, under which the indict­ Tex.
ments were found, was unconstitutional in that
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it forbade all associations of business men, and The J. H. Bennett Coal Co. has been incorporated
provided harsh and unusual penalties. The judge with a capital stock of $5,000, at Weir City, Kas.
held that a higher court had approved the law
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and that it should stand as far as this case was W. L. Stickel has purchased the business of
concerned. No notice of error was made and the Kearney Coal Co., at Kearney, Neb.
therefore the case will go on trial on its merits.
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W. L. Stickle has purchased the business of the
The operators of Pittsburg. Kan., are trying to Kearney Coal Co., of Kearney, Neb.
get together on a proposition to not sell carloads
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of coal to small consumers, but to throw their
Edward F. Smith has sold his coal business at
trade to the local dealers.
Wellman, la., to R. B. Hull.
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The Butts Bros. Coal & Lumber Co.. of Wichita.
Kas., has sold its numerous yards in Southern
Kansas and Oklahoma to the Long-Bell Lumber
Co.
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The coal firm of J. Bualnecht & Co., at Muskegon,
Mich., have changed their title and will do
C. Blythe has sold his coal business at Greenfield,
la., to Jesse Dorsey.
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The White Oak Coal Co. has been incorporated
at Centerville, Ia.
business from now on as Bualnecht Bros.
ILLINOIS MINING LAW AMENDMENTS.
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Secretary David Ross, of the Illinois bureau of
The Wheeler Grain & Coal Co., which was re­ labor statistics, sends out notice of the following
cently organized at Des Moines, Iowa, has increased
its capital stock to $30,000.
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amendments to the state mining law, passed by
the legislature at its last session:
Section 23 was amended to read as follows:
Alfred J. Nagel, New Ulm, Minn., recently secured
the contract for supplying coal for that city
during the coming year.
"The means of signaling to and from the bottom
man, the top man and the engineer, shall consist
of a tube, or tubes, or wire encased in wood or
iron pipes, through which signals shall be com­
The Elmwood Lumber Co. has purchased the coal municated by electricity, compressed air or other
and lumber business of the L. R. Vakiner Lumber pneumatic devices, or ringing of a bell."
Co.. in Elmwood, Neb.
The purpose of this amendment, in addition to
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authorizing- the use of a more improved method
The Gilmore Grain & Elevator Co.. Gilmore City. of signaling, is to provide for the protection and
Iowa, is erecting a coal shed at that point for the the encasing of the bell wire.
storage of coal.
Section 18 refers to the duties of the mine ex­
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aminers: "In order to correctly determine the
The American Falls Coal & Lumber Co., of quantity of air in circulation in different portions
American Falls. Ida., has sold its business to the
of the mine, it is hereby made his duty to measure,
Weeter Lumber Co.
with an instrument for that purpose, the amount
of air passing in the last crosscut or breakthrough
J. H. Kenworthy & Co., Andover, S. D., recently
of each pair of entries, or in the last room of each
disposed of their coal and wood business to Wil­
division in a longwall mine, and at all other points
liams Bros.
where he deems it necessary, the same to be noted
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in the daily book kept for that purpose."
The Burlington Fuel Co. has been incorporated
Section 18 prohibits the employment of boys
at Burlington, la., to do a wholesale and retail
under 16 years of age in the coal mines of this
business.
state.
Some changes were made in the mine inspection
A. L. Key & Co. have purchased the lumber and districts, but these do not affect coal operations
coal business of N. Gennette & Co., at Aurora, Kan. directly.