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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-03-04
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at Jackson, Miss. |
Feb. 8, 1897.

Notice is hereby given that the
following named settler has filed
notice of his intention to make final
proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before
the Chancery Clerk of Pearl River
County at Poplarvllle, Miss, on
March 26, 1897, viz: Dauiel f. Smith
of Derby, Miss, Homestead No.
31OS2 for the 81 ne4 and sw4 ne4
and mel sci sec 13 t 3sr17w.
He names the following Witness
es to prove his continuous resi-
dence upoa and cultivation of. said
land: viz: Boyd Smith, John j. Am
acker, James A. Smith, William S.
Amacker, all of Derby P. O., Miss.
ROBERT e. WILSON,
Register.
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NOTICE..
To mem bers Pearl River Camr

To members Pearl River Camp,
No. $40, u z. ":
You are requested to meet at the
courthouse, in the town of Poplars
vile, Friday, the 18th day of March,
1897, at 3 O'Clock p. M, for the pur.
pose of electing officers aud attends
ing to other business pertaining to
the camp. j. j. MOORE,
Commander.
W. D. WOULARD, AdJ't.
Feb. ID, 1897.
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sappEnrEp WEEKLY.

Ths following schedule went in.
- eject Sunday, Dec. goth, 1896:
NJ NJ 2 southbound due 1888 a. m.
NJ NJ / south bound due 6:24 a. m.
N.Y. M . north bound due GIT p. IN.
w. 4 northbound due 1l:27 a. m.
NJ NJ az southbound due 11:27 a. m.
NJ NJ a. mort b bound due 12:45 p. m.
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THOROUGHBRED POULTRY.
White Plymouth Rocks, White
1epborns and Pekin Ducks.
Eggs, for Matching, for sale by
MRS. ELLA COTToNGIM,
Orvisburg, Miss.
asend not vain tears to seek a by
gone hour:
No dew can kiss to life q last
years Aower."
Postofice asplrants are bobbing
up.
number of our citizens attend
ed the Mardi Gras festivities.
S. E. Lance left Saturday night
on a short business trip to Hattiss-
burg.
Town Marshal Smith and hands
have been doing some needed street
work.
J.J. Moore has sold his stock OF
goods and real estate to S. E. Lance
4 Co.
Hon. J. M. Shivers made a pro.
fessional visit to Nicholson last
Thursday.
Prof. II. K. Rouse and Theo.
Bilbo made a pleasant visit to the
coast last week.
W. W. Lambert arrived Friday
morning from several days bust
ness trip to Hickory.
DC. Smith, q popular young gen.
tleman of Meridian, was a Sunday
visitor to PoplarYille friends.
GRlP-La Grippe lie like a cold.
only stubbon. s'77" cures both
price twenty-five cts.-at all drug
gists.
Frank Welsh has purchased the
Carver lot east of the Methodist
church. aud is preparing to build
thereon.
Section Master Bob Smith has
planted number of water oaks
near the section houses and in front
of the Miller House.
Jerry Raine,. one of our most ex-
perlenced colored turpentine men,
is now in the employ of Stewart &
Taylor, at McHenry.
William Miller has sold his place
IN the northern part Of town to Sol
Moody. Mr.. Miller and family will
move to Lumberton.
The martin-sweet harbinger of
sprlng-arrived last week, and
their vivacious twittering is a
source of delight to old and
young.
Mrs. 3. j. Russell, who has been
The guest Of her sister. Mrs. Me-
Giants, for some days. left Satur-
DAY night for her home at Birming-
nam, Ala.
A train will leave New Orleans
On the 18th or 18th for the scene
Vi the great prize fight between
Corbett and Fitzsimmons: Fare
lot the round trip $3.50.
Prof, c. A. Thornhill has closed
MS singing school at Harper's
Greek, Marion county, and passed
through town Friday en- route to
nls home near Nicholson.
Our clever drummer friend, T. M.
curtis, was in to see us Saturday.
W.T.. Curtis has resigned his position
WIN V. Swan & Co., and now rep
'esents 9. Doyle s Co., and will
make his usual regular trips in the
interest of that house.
LOUIS Richardson. colored, who
W was arrested me day last week at
us home six nj "a west Of town,
y raafged With Thy murder Of Sol
n0'.ou. colored. an Who was taken
. Plcayuus for N sIlminary trial,
was dlscharpaaa0 - = v,rdict being
'Sn'0ls homicide.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-03-04

THOROUGHBRED POULTRY.
white Plymouth Rocks, White
rocborns and Pekin Ducks.
Egps. for Matching, for sale by
MRS. ELLA COTTONGIM,
Orvisburg, Miss.
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MILLER HOUS d

NJ rs. 5. y. VI LLE Il, PrOpr1etresS,
Location near the depot, and
convenient to all business houses.
Comfortable rooms for drummers,
transient visitors and permanent
boarders. Table supplied with the
best the market affords. Terms
reasonable.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-25

ments for a fitting participation in the
monster parade.
1t is the intention of the parade COM
mittee to request all the merchants to
decorate their show windows with the
golden jubilee emblemS. These are
expected to remain until the close of
the jubilee week.
An idea is now under consideration
to form separate firemen's division in
the parade, and Chairman Grady has
sent letter to the Board of Fire Com
missioners asking that as much as can
be spared of. the city's fire apparatus
be sent the committee for their use in
the parade, the amount to be desig-
mated by Chief Sullivan. The Exempt
Firemen and the Veteran Volunteer
Firemen will take part.
Colonel J. F. Smith, chief of Grand
Morshal Morse's staff, has consulted
with Lieutenant Miley, chief aid to
Brigadier General Shafter, in regard to
a military display, and it is assured
that on January 26 and January 2S
there will be presentation of military
maneuverS in some suitable park.
John L. Howard, vice-president Of
the Chamber of Commerce, has ap-
pointed a committee in the persons of
Charles r. Allen, H. ]. Crocker, John
Birmingham, Hugo D. Keil, Edward
G.. Lukens, Andrew Carrigan and
Charles Miller to cooperate with the
Jubilee Finance Committee in connec-
ton with raising funds for the cele-
bration.
A cavalcade of 1000 men, represent
ing every class interested in the his
tory of California, to act as aids, will
be selected from the various parlorS of
the Native Sons throughout the State
and will march in the division at the
head of the line.
Henry J. Crocker of the Pacific
Coast Jockey Club and Thomas H.
Williams Jr. of the California Jockey
Club have reported to the Publicity
and Promotion Committee that a mum.
Der of both the large and the small
jubilee posters will be displayed in
conspicuous places at the IngIeside
and Oakland tracks.
On Monday the invitations which will
be sent to the Pioneers, Governors of
States and other distinguished per-
sons will be ready for mailing Tbe,-
will be printed IN black and gold on
the heaviest kind of bond paner and
will be magnificent specimens of the
engraver's art.
The San Francisco Schuetzen Verein
one of the largest German fraternai
and rif1e-shooting bodies on the Coast
has decided to participate in the ma,
rade and will turn out in full strength
The Amalgamated Wood Workers.,
Union No. is has refused the invita.
tion to participate in the ceIebration
on the ground that the 'discoverv Of
gold IN California has proved a cnrsa
to the majority of the people in this
state This is the first body that has
done so. 4e'0
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the Government. This would be done,
perhaps, under promise of immunity
from prosecution. While it is impos-
S1Dle for the prosecutors to force the
accomplices to give evidence in matters
that might implicate them and render
them liable to criminal prosecution, it
is well known that they might escape
by surrendering their knowledge to the
Government as a fee for clemency.'
There were forty-three charges of
embezzlement against the late Collec-
tor in the case wherein he was set
free. There are twice that number of
charges ''in nubibus,' as the LAWYERS
say-pending in the clouds. That a
large part of the recent work of the
Grand Jury has been in connection with
the new charges there is now no doubt.
The only feature of the situation that
puzzles the Federal officers is the fact
that there is a mystery as to We'll
burns whereabouts. When he quietly
departed some weeks ago it was given
out by his son that he was in Sacra-
mento. Later he was reported by the
same authority to be sojourning at
Sacramento, while the last bulletins
located him vaguely as up north. y
lieving that he was in Mexico.
There are no indictments against him
now.
Where a mali was cuts little figure
as to where the present tense places
him. 1t may be stated. in a general
way, that Welburn may at this mo-
ment be among the the tropical bowers
OF Bangkok or traversing the pampas
OF the Argentines, for all that Is
definitely known by those most eager
to hear him plead mot guilty" and
face his accuSers once more
1t is certain that the Grand jury
now making an investigation will
spoil few quires of Government pa
per and that Samuel knight, drawer
of indictments, will make many
charges Gin the manner by the statutes
| provided" before another moon wakes
and wanes. But whether all the pro-
cesses of the law will be swift enough
to catch the official butterfly now sail
ing on the wings of the morning time
alone can tell.
There are many hearts that would
skip a few beats should o. M. We'll
burn appear in the midst of these COM
plications. He might be forced TO tell
some unpleasant things if he were
again upon the rack of torture. But
the haunting mystery, the ever-pres-
ent and peace destroying fear of the
revenue fraud accomplices is that they
will be indicted even if the late de-
linquent Collector returns to the scenes
of his festive life no more. So a nall
hovers DER the sunshine and the
flowers and many guilty minds hear
in troubled dreams the footsteps of the
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-25
FEDERAL VOLCANO SLUMBERS
At THE BIG RED BUILDING
AND WELBURN TRAVELS AFAR
Ten Thousand Dollars EN- bezzled in Chinese
Frauds by Ways That Are Dark and
Tricks That Are Vain.

represented the earnings of the Col
lector and his pals in the scheme, that
the cost of the work should not have
exceeded $4,000 or $4,000, and that
there was conspiracy involving out
side people. 1t would be a good morsel
for the gossips to know how extensive
were the ramifications leading to vari-
Gus business houses. 1t would be even
more interesting to know what sleep
less nights they passed when Wei
burn stood, as it seemed, face to face
with a felon's fate. Beyond this and
still more interesting is the fact that
the pals had something to do with the
verdict of the jury. By ways that are
known to themselves they got men of
lenient views to pass on the case l
do not insinuate that there was any
thing wrong with the jurors who set
Welburn free, but 1 do say that all
sorts of pressure was brought to bear
in favor of the culprit. When power
full influences are insidiously at work
in great case it is not necessary to
accuse anybody of crookedness in or
der to account for a broad, forgiving
and humane view of a mans short
comings.
There is no longer any doubt in the
minds of those who are at all on the
inside that there is somebody in this
hotchpotch who is willing under
proper pressure, to give evidence for
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-25
HAPPY LITTLE ONES.
Children at the Aid Society's
h Home See Genuine
Christmas

In the celebration of Christmas fes-
tivities last evening the little ones in
the care of the Boys and Girls Aid
Society, at the corner of Baker and
Grove streets. were not forgotten. The
directors evidently remembered the
day when they themselves watched
with glad expectancy for the advent
of Santa Claus and consequent joys,
and under direction of Superintendent
Arthur Smiley a nights entertainment
was prepared for the little ones which
will be looked back to with pleasant
remembrance until another annivers-
ary of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth
dawnS.
Early in the evening the assembly
rooms of the home were filled with
the little inmates Of the home and a
few friends, and a programme intro
ducing that most glorious parsonage
in childhood'S realms-Santa Claus
and his almost forgotten wife, to-
gether with many other pleasing fea-
lures was gone through with. But if
the programme was ever so interesting
the aftermath was more so, and per-
haps the thoughts of the little ones
wandered a trifle from what was go
ing on on the stage as they gaZed at a
curtain in one corner of the room, over
the top of which peeped the tip of q
most gorgeous and promising Christ
mas tree laden with bountiful gifts.
The programme was first-class and
every number we'll rendered, but when
the tree. glittering with myriads of
candles and gaudy ornaments stood
forth in all it's glory, the delight of the
little ones knew no bounds. and a
Christmas for homeless children start
ed in earnest. Each child received a
book or toy to gladden. it's heart, be-
SidpC most hOnntifTll SnnnlV of those
little things, which, while they are
commonplace enough to the rich, are
luxuries indeed to the children of the
moor
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-25

will be settled on Monday next, and
on that date the formal application
will be made to the court. The ques-
ton raised will be one of pure law,
the contention being that on its face
the order is void. The order itself will
be submitted in support of the con-
tention, and that will be all the pro-
ceedings so far as the certificate of
probable cause is concerned.
Should the application be granted it
will stay all proceedings until the ap-
peal from the order itself shall be de-
cided, but as the contention in the ap-
peal and that of the application for
the certificate are the same the deci-
sion on one will amount almost to a
decision on the other.
The District Attorney was served
with a copy Of the application yes
terday afternoon and service was ac-
cCI,ted
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-25

Marshal, whose clutch they fear by
day as we'll as in the depths of many
night of anxiety, fear and broken
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-25
ANOTHER APPEAL.
Durrant's Attorneys Apply for
a Writ Of Probable Cause.

Christmas for the attorneys for
Durrant will mean a long study over
the points of their latest appeal filed
yesterday. This time they are asking
the Supreme Court for a certificate of
probable cause on the ground that the
order of execution setting the dav for
the hanging of Durrant does not give
him the sixty days guaranteed him by
the statutes.
The application was first made to
Judge Bahrs in his court yesterday
morning. II was refused without de-
lay, and then the application was filed
IN the office of the higher tribunal.
Inc application is as follows:
You will hereby please take notice that
the de1endant and appellant above nam
ed, w. II. T. Durrant, by his counsel,
Wiil WI on on the Zlth day of December, 1897, at
preme Court of the State of California.
IN tIe farTCtt building, in the city and
county OF San Francisco, apply to the
Justices of the said Supreme Court for
a ceruncate of probable cause upon the
appeal heretofore taken by the appel-
Iant from the order of the Superior
francisco, State of California Denarf-
ment No. thereof, Hon George Fl
SSahrs, Judge, made and entered in said
Superior Court on the 18th day of De-
cember, 1897, which said order diracted
the delivery of appellant to the Warden
of the State prison at San Quentin Cali
fornia, and the inf1iction of the death
penalty on the defendant and appellant
on Friday, the 7th day of January, 1888.
within the walls of said State prison AT
San Quentin. "
Said motion will be made upon a duly
certihed copy of said order and upon
the ground that said order is erroneous
and null and void, in that the said order
directs the infliction and execution of
the death penalty against appellant up
on day less than sixty days from the
gate OF the making Of said order by said
superior Court, as appears upon the face
thereof, and that said order is contrary
TO law
The application is signed by Dick
1nson, Deuprey and Boardman.
| The bill of exceptions in the case
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-25
WILLING HANDS
LEND THEIR AID
Great Preparations for the Cali
fOrnia Golden Jubilee
Going On.
Additional Organizations to Participate
Merchants Asked to
Decorate.

Preparations for the great Golden
Jubilee are progressing at a rapid
rate and the prospects are that the af-
fair will be carried out on so grand a
scale that the day will become a cri-
terion by which all future celebrations
will be gauged as to magnificence and
worth.
Next Monday evening the Young
Mems Institute will hold a meeting in
the Parrott building, to make arrange
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-25
PELAGIC SEALING.
No More Vessels Will Be Allowed
to Fish in tbe Prohibited
WQterS,

The following circular received yes
terday by Collector of the Port jack
son explains itself:
Notify all persons in your district
contemplating clearance for pelagic
sealing of the passage of the bill pro-
hibiting sealing in the Pacific Ocean,
north of the thirty-fifth degree of lat
itude, under penalty of forfeiture, a
fine of $1,000, and Imprisonment not to
exceed six months
The last vessel clearing from this
port for pelagic sealing was the Amer
lean schooner Kate and Anna, Charles
Lutgens master. She cleared on De-
cember 10.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-25

Townsend's famous broken candy, pure
and wholesome; 2-ib. boxes 25c. 627 Pal
ace Hotel building.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-25

Stop that cough with Lows Horehound
Cough Syrup; price 10c. All Sansone
street.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-25

Eighty-five per cent of Partisan
shops are open the whole of Sunday.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-25
a New Tenor

Is pictured upon Town Talks front page
this week, and the reading matter in the
musical pages is of special interest to
our local dilettante. There are two
novelettes, the characters drawn from
real life, and altogether the number is
above the average in interest.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-10-18

New York's board of health has
recommended for the uses of court,
rooms, where witnesses Kiss the BIZ
BILE when being sworn, a copy of it
bound with white celluloid, instead
OF leather, which can be washed and
disinfected as often as desired.
While you are LOOKING for a change
in the weather. examine the latest
patterns in wall paper at the Postot-
fee. All goods first class and at the
lowest living. prices. Cali in and ex-
anime my stock: No trouble to chow
goods. |. ". SHERwood. .N
The Secretary of the Interior has
appointed the following appraisers Of
abandoned military reservations In
this State: Edward g. Archer and
George w. Rutherford, Fort MeDer-
NIT reservation, Hum boldt county,
and Ezra F. Barnes and Hamilton
Mccain Fort Halleck reservation in
this county. ...".r.. r.'...
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Humboldt county has won its suit
against Lander. county Cor the 1895
taxes ON 2.35 miles Of the main track
Of the Central Pacific. Lander COL
lected the taxes on this portion of the
track and now on the decision Of the
Court must pay it to Humboldt
county. Other taxes are due to
Humboldt county and further itiga-
ton is likely.
Judge Thomas A. Stephens, a for.
mer prominent Comstocker, died in
Portland, Oregon, Saturday. Tomas
everybody called him on the Com
stock has many friends in Nevada
who will be saddned by the news of
his death. He was relative a. Mr..
q. Fl. Sproule, editor of the Free
Press. The INDEPENDENT extends It's
cympathies to the sorrowing rela-
tives.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-10-18
LABOR ITEMS.

Members of the Melbourne Chinese
Cabinet Makers union struck for S1.s7
per day.
The Scottish Railway union has in
creased its annual income SO 900 q year
by raising dues.
Women working in many German
factories are forbidden to wear corsets
during working hours. ~ ~ &Es
, The Cleveland Street Railway COM
psny has begun the enforcement OF It's
rule prohibiting employees from fire.
quentihg saloons. ~.
The Baltimore e. Ohio Southwestern
is painting all Of its city ticket Offices
Royal Blue with gold and silver trim
mings. The .cohabinat ion has proved to
be successful, and attracts the attention
of a great many people. n
The American Agents association
claims that its war on one of the indus
trial insurance companies last yeafcokt
that company 81, 900 900. The company
has refused to employ canvassers and
collectors who belong to the associa-
ton, These agents handle union made
goods exclusively.
Away back in the SOS an old eformer
named Maltby who lived in; Cleveland,
o., attempted TO unite all labor organ
izations in such q body as the Knights
of Labor. He met with resistance from
several, and, among others, p. M, Ar
thur, Of the Locomotive Engineers, who,
in common with many of the members
of his order, thought the skilled nature
of their work freed them from all dam
ger OF competition.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-10-18
s.'E!olBE6 sx31ss4 eS|yt1s

Hle heheEt otS1ne ana ~ eiitole
Of q newspaper which pdb lilhes 1i3iA
is held, in Smith VI. Utley (WiS.), IS
L. 4. A. GOO, 10 -fe rxapuHathiet for tho
libel, whether he lfpey of the publica-
<tion or metz = " PS5Ef, .&9B 4,
An insurable interest in the life Of .
son-in-Iaw is held; In AaEms ~ Reed
(Ky.), IS L. r. A. 6e2, to exist in favor Of
a woman who with him ae one family
keeps boarding house, dividing tho
profits between them.
The right of tenant for. life to
operate for oil or gas or to make an OIL
orgaslease is denied In Aatsha1l ys. Mel
lon (Pa.), IS, L. R. A. $40, except where
operations for oil or gas have been COM
menced before,the life estate accrues.
A temporary breach of an insurance
policy by increasing the hazard is held
In Traders Insurance company VS.. Cat
lin GILL;, 81. L. B. A. SOS, to leave the
policy in force after the extra risk
ceased, if this did not contribute to q
subsequent loss-.,t...
So long as the remnant Of a building
which is left standing is reasonably
adapted for use as basis upon which
TO restore the building to the condition
in which it was before injury it is held,
in Royal Insurance company VS.. Nc
Intyre (Tex,)I IS 4. r. A. 672, that there
is no total loss.
An assignment for creditors by
lessees of a coal mine il held, in Potter
VS.. Gilbert !(Pa9, IS l.. r. A. $50, to be
Intellectual to defeat the right of the
lessor to proceed for a forfeiture for
existing defaults and take fixtures at
an appraised, value in satisfaction of
claims for breaches of in the
lease.
Moneys paid into court and deposited
in bank or trust company are held, in
Jones VS.. Merchants national bank &C.
c. APP. 1st c., IS L. r.. A. $685. to be
exempt from the process of a litigant
without first obtaining consent of the
court and cannot be reached without
leave of the court by bills fled against
the depositors, the clerk or other per-
sons who have been decreed to have an
interest in the funds.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-10-18
The Blaoksmtth's Note.

.. ..f r o. ~ ~ . "a ~ II
The sound old prorerb, aboJt the
shoemaker sticking 10 his LIST re.
ceives new confirmation in a story
from the Green Bag. An honest old
blacksmith down in Texas, despair
ing Of ever getting cash out If a de-
inquent debtor agreed to take his
note for the amount. The debtor
wishes to go to lawyer and have the
document drawn up but the knight
Of the anvil, who had been a sheriff
IN days gone;by. felt fully competent
TO draw it up himself, This he pro-
ceeded to do, with the following re-
suit: @On the first day of June I
promise to, pay Jeems Mite the sum
Of eleving dollars. and il said note be
not paid on the date aforesaid, then
this instrument, is to be null and void
and Of no effect. Witness my hand,
etc."