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ORE SHIPMENTS DURING JUNE.
Iron ore shipments during June were 4,826,505
gross tons as against 7,316,592 gross tons for June,
1910, a decrease of 2,490,087 gross tons. The
movement to July 1 of the present year was 8,842.-
908 gross tons as against 14,918,258 gross tons for
the corresponding period last year, a decrease of
6,075,350 tons. It will of course not be difficult
to overtake this lead if conditions of trade improve.
Conditions are improving slowly, as
noted by the fact that the June movement was 1,-
141,686 tons greater than the May movement,
when 3,684,819 tons were moved. Following are
the ore shipments by ports:
Port. June, 191U. June, 1911.
Escanaba 767,618 538,168
Marquette 533,358 314,807
Ashland 708,24S 394,555
Superior 1,321,877 1,635,651
Duluth 2,567,077 1,102,979
Two Harbors 1,418,414 840,345
Total 7,316,592 4,826,505
1911 decrease 2,490,087
To July 1, To July 1,
Port. 1910. 1911.
Escanaba 1,739,735 1,067,708
Marquette 1,150,244 533,738
Ashland . .'. 1,515,555 662,412
Superior 2,632,835 2,951,490
Duluth 5,097,262 2,050,134
Two Harbors 2,782,627 1,577,426
Total 14.918,258 8,842,908
1911 decrease 6,075,350
KOKOAL'S NEW OFFICERS.
At the recent annual powwow of the Order Ko-
Koal, in Minneapolis, the following eleven imperial
sentries were chosen:
Imperial Modoc, Arthur M. Hull, Chicago; Imperial
Baron, Daniel Howard, Clarksburg. Va.;
Imperial Baronel, E. E. Springer, Spokane, Wash.;
Imperial Baronet, Arch Coleman, Minneapolis;
Imperial Pictor, Charles E. Lester, Philadelphia;
Imperial Mazuma, John Craig, Assumption, 111.;
Imperial Gazook, C. K. Skull, Philadelphia; Imperial
Pit Boss, J. S. Van Epps, Cleveland, O.;
Imperial Acolyte, A. L. Snow, Omaha; Imperial
Swatta, W. H. Terrell, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Imperial
Spotta, Homer H. Allen, Erie, Pa.
The report of Imperial Pictor Charles E. Lester
showed that 221 new members were received during
the year and that 18 deaths occurred. The
balance on hand after all bills had been paid was
$350.97. The location of the next powwow city
was left to the sentries.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 43
Mr. Francis M. Osborne, of Cleveland, O., died
at 6 o'clock July 15, in St. Vincent's Hospital, Toledo,
O., after he had collapsed on a Lake Shore
train. Mr. Osborne dropped unconscious in a
Pullman drawing room at 11.30 o'clock P. M.,
July 14, three-quarters of an hour after he had
left Cleveland with his wife. He did not recover
consciousness and a physician and ambulance met
the train at Toledo. He was hurried to the hospital
from the train. His death was caused by a
cerebral hemorrhage. Mrs. Osborne was on her
way west to visit her sister, Mrs. R. G. Miller,
whose home is at 1940 East Eighty-second street,
Colorado Springs, Col., and her husband was to
have taken her as far as Chicago. After he collapsed
his wife called aid and accompanied him
to the hospital, where she remained until he died.
In addition to his widow he is survived by two
daughters, Mildred and Dorothy, now touring in
France. He was born at Girard, Trumbull county,
Ohio, March 12, 1855, and was a first cousin of
President William McKinley. The mothers of Osborne
and McKinley were sisters, members of the
Allison family. As a boy Mr. Osborne worked
around the steel mills at Girard and in a coal mine
at Palmyra, O., going to Cleveland as a bookkeeper
in the late seventies. He branched out into the
coal business for himself, first by operating a
small mine at Palmyra. Gradually the interests
of Mr. Osborne spread out. In the nineties he
had begun to rank with the larger operators and in
1898, at a time when he was operating the West
Newton (Pa.) mines, he was instrumental in forming
the Pittsburgh Coal Co. He was first president
of that company and served two years, until
he resigned to form the $1,500,000 Youghiogheny
& Ohio Coal Co., of which he was president. Six
years ago Mr. Osborne was one of the founders of
the Pittsburgh Vein Operators' Association, of
which he was president until he resigned six
months ago. At the time of his death Mr. Osborne
was president of 12 corporations and director in
nearly as many more. He was at the head of the
Youghiogheny & Ohio Co., the Beaver Dam Coal
Co.. the Big Vein Coal Co., the E. N. Boggs Coal
Co., the Gilchrist Transportation Co., the Globe
Steamship Co., the Lake Shore Transit Co., the
Lisbon Coal Co., the Lorain Steamship Co. and the
Trumbull & Mahoning Water Co.
Capt. Alfred M. Ogle, Sr., a prominent Indiana
coal operator, and president of the Vandalia Coal
Co.. one of the largest in the state, died at Indianapolis,
Ind., July 22, after an illness of about two
months. Mr. Ogle was a graduate of West Point
Military Academy and had seen service in the regular
army. He was engaged in the coal business