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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-29
Who Are Theye

A statement OF present conditions
would not be complete nor Fair without
mentioning the leading spirits who are
responsible for the very gratifying turn
that mining has taken IL Beaver coun-
ty- When history Of the new era in
southern Utah mining shall have been
written foremost among those who
must be given honorable mention VII
be found the name Of Mr.. a. =.
Lewis, president and manager Of the
Imperial and Majestic Mining compa-
MES. When Ar. Lewis cane 10 the
country there was not a man in Utah,
with TWO dollars and forty cents to
back his opinion, who thought tdeIe
was even a good prospect IF pay dirt"
south OF Juab county. To-Day Mr..
Lewis name in inscribed on the foTn-
datiO1 stones of four properties, each
one OF which will put millions into cir
culation in the next few years. Turned
down by Utah capitalists in mis- ap-
peal for funds TO develop the properties
OF his selection, Mr.. Lewis was forced
to go into the eastern money market.
Drawing and fighting down the news
paper and other pTejudices. ne was en-
abled to scrape of the surface debris
at the Cactus. the Imperial. the o. X.
and the Harrington Hickory mines and
prove 70 the mining world che sound
ness of his reasoning, and at the same
time the riches Of his adopted country.
He who laughs last, laughs longest
and Ar. Lewis can now lean back in
his easy chair and laugh at
those with whom he first talk
&c of taking up the abandoned
copper fields Of Beaver county. Mr..
Lewis is not. however. sitting back
in an easy chair Electric lights and
power, waterworks. smelters. railroads
and other auxiliaries are necessary to
the complete success Of his vast min
ing ventures. and the way IS being
paved for all Of these.
Colonel Henry Altman, the old war
horse, has been an advance agent of
the aggregation Of capital and energy
which has pitched its tent in Beaver
county and from the start has been
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-29

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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-29

Water Is Not Plentiful
There was, and still g, the important
The leader., 1901-10-30
Change in Revenue system.

The Virginia constitutional conven-
ton committee on finance has report
ed plan for the payment of corpora
ton taxes to the state alone. Such a
measure would not mean a diminution
of taxes, but change in the system of
revenue raising that is advantageous
in material respects. 1t would in
volve a proportiOnate reduction of
state and raise of county ad valorem
taxes. This is true policy--as far as
possible property tax should be local.
If it could be made entirely so there
would be an end of under and unequal
valuations vice INDUCED under the
sophism that 1t is necessary to keep
Seventy-four counties from getting
ahead of one. If this sort of cheating
were continued, when there was no
state ad valorem tax, its effects would
be confined to the counties individual
ly. But under such dispensation it
would soon and certainly be the rule
for all property to be assessed, and at
an equitable value.
This is no new suggestion, or plan
of the Virginia convention. Some of
the Northern states, notably Pennsyl-
yania, derive all, or the most, of their
revenues from corporation taxes.
That it would tend to better and
more equitable assessments if the
property tax were wholly localized is
shown in municipal tax rolls The
valuations of city property by the city
assessors are invariably larger-a
nearer approach to fair valuation
than the valuation of the same prop
critics by the state and county assess
ments. licksbHrg HerdId.
The leader., 1901-10-30
SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN METHODS
sample of How and Why the Omcial
Loases are Distributed to the Fa-
yOred Few.

Loayes are Distributed to the Fa-
yored Few.
The Republicans of Mississippi are
not dwelling together in harmony, and
there is quite scrap going on over the
distribution of Federal patronage. The
postoffice at Terry has become quite a
bone of contention, and has caused Mr.
David Holt, editor of the Progressive
Era, to address the following letter to
the Postotfice Department at Washing
ton, which has been given to the press
quite generally:
JACKSON, Miss, Oct. %, 1901.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, Wash
ington, d. C.:
Sir-Would request that you investi-
gate the following before making an
appointment to fill the vacancy at the
Terry, Miss, postofice:
1t is a matter of my personal knowl-
edge that Referee James Hill refused to
endorse the petition of G. E. Hubbard
for the Terry postoffice because Hub
bard would not agree to pay an igno-
rant negro named Burnett, resident
of Terry, the sum of Sl5 per month for
his endorsement The facts in the case
can be readily proven and are known
in part to Postotfice Inspector Charles
Fitzgerald, of Jackson, Miss.
1t is also known that Louis Burnett
has claimed and received "take-out"
from the Terry postmaster in con
sideration for Hills endorsement.
This is all public scandal at Terry,
and in the name of the party which |
am working to build up here on de-
cent basis | request an investigation
before an appointment is made.
Respectfully,
DAVID HOLT,
Editor Progressive Era.
1t is this kind of thing which it is
alleged President Roosevelt is de-
termined to put his No. s down on with
all his might Let the good work go
The leader., 1901-10-30
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONS MIS-
TAKE

S. p. Mitchell, president of the Negro
Industrial Association, which held its
first convention at Jackson this year,
wrote a letter to the News of that
city in which he said: THE negroes
want no social equality, but simply
the opportunity to make an honest
living and to dwell in harmony with
their white neighbors. If there is no
outside interference they will be able
to do this" He also thinks that Book
er Washingtons entry into politics
and his unfortunate dinner at the
nations capital have deprived him of
influence which he might previously
have had. Washington would, indeed,
have been IAN exceptional negro" had
he declined the Presidents invitation.
Knowing the condition of affairs as
relates to the races as he does down
South, the "broad mind" and "intel-
lect" attributed to him should have
been used to "serve his people" by de-
clining the honor thrust upon him by
the President-a distinction that, put
to baser use by smaller minds, cannot
but bring disaster, and in fact, impede
the paths that were becoming even to
the onward tread of the industrial and
sensible negro.
The leader., 1901-10-30
She's II Bird-She Is.

The wife of a Methodist minister in
West Virginia has been married three
times. Her maiden name was Part
ridge; her first husband was named
Robin, her second Sparrow and the
present ones name is Quayle. There
are now two young Robbins, one Spar
row and three little Quayles in the
family. One grandfather was Swami
and another was a Jay, but he's dead
and now bird of Paradise They live
on Hawk avenue, Eagleville, Canary
Islands, aud the fellow who wrote this
article is a Tyre bird, and an in
terested relative of the family .-Er.
The leader., 1901-10-30
PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORTS.

The jackson correspondent of the
Times Democrat says the annual re
ports of forty-two of the seventy five
county superintendent in the State
have already been filed with the State
Superintendent and the figures con
tanned in them afford most interest
| ing insight into the public school con-
ditions now prevailing. In the first
place, these reports, which give both
the total enrolment and the average
attendance during the public school
term of four months, show that in all
of the counties the latter is very irreg-
ular, the average attendance rarely
amounting to go per cent. of the total
number of pupils enrolled in the
schools. Nor are these figures, which
include both whites and blacks, TO be
| explained away on the easy assumption
that the high average of the white at
tendance is reduced by the abnormally
low average of the negro schools, for
in most of the counties the one race
attends about as well as the other and
even in those counties practically
white the results are the same. In
their efforts to determine the causes
of unsuccess of the county schools, the
teachers of the State do not seem to
have paid especial attention to this
important one, which is undoubtedly
one of the greatest drawbacks to rural
education. While the totals for the
years are not available just now, in
complete comparisons go to show that
the average attendance of the negroes
on the public schools is steadily on
the increase, a fact that gives warming
that at no distant date the educational
qualifications of the present State
Constitution will have to be reinforced
by some other political device. In
made, there being for a total of l,135
enrolled an average attendance of 500.
Simpson county makes the worst show
ing according to her superintendent
report, there being total enrolment
of 1920 and an average attendance of
9s3
The reports also show that the sal
aries paid the rural school teachers are
not such as to attract and retain in the
profession teachers of much profes-
sional talent. DeSoto pays her white
teachers an average monthly salary of
S41.43, Adams s44.55, Yazoo S4265, and
these three are easily at the head of
the list. The average salary received
by white teacher can be seen in Jones
county which pays S20G0 Simpson S25,
Marion 5000 Perry Sl9.78. The salary
of a negro teacher of the same grade is.
of course, below the figures here
quoted.
During the past year there has been
observable general movement for the
betterment of old county schoolhouses
and the building of new ones. Kemper !
during the year built 20 new school |
houses, Webster 10, Wayne 10, Lafa-
yette l., Pike I, Amite S, Tippah s,
Holmes 6, Pamela ,, and so on through |
the list, there being few counties that |
do not report the erection of new |
structures.
The leader., 1901-10-30

Mr.. Joe w. Power is candidate for
Secretary of State to fill the unex.
PRED term of his late lamented and
beloved father. Mr.. Power was his
fathers assistant and no one in the
State is better qualified for the
position. From all over the State he
is receiving assurances of support.
The Herald does not think a greater
compliment could be paid the memory
OF Col. j. l.. Power than to elect as his
successor his son, and this will be
done at the special election, Novem-
Der 5.-Ydzoo Herald
The leader., 1901-10-30

Carl Schurz lent his voice to the
Anti-Tammany organizations, as he
made his entrance into the campaign
at large meeting held in New York
last Wednesday. Mr. Schurz accused
the Tammany forces of seeing the ris-
ing storm and ingeniously selecting
Mr.. Shepard as their Candidate man
OF distinctive standing as an opponent
OF Tammany and a champion of re-
form "Tammany grows worse with
age, says Mr.. Schurz, and he supports
Seth Low for New York's mayor.
The leader., 1901-10-30

Many well educated folks may be
ignorant of the fact that one Southern
white man in four can not read and
write. The South is behind in the
matter of education and each locality
should strain itself to the utmost by
taxation to educate its children, since
a surplus of wealth is not ours to be
so used. Public schools are institu-
tions in the interest of the public; and
they yield the best returns to the
State, increasing industry and lessen
ing crime and poverty.
The leader., 1901-10-30

Senator Tillman, of South Carolina
made the following laconic and point
ed comment on the Presidents social
equality misstep, a few days ago, which
will not prove far from the truth, il
the Southern negro goes to presuming
on that incident; The action of
President Roosevelt in entertaining
that niger will necessitate our killing
a thousand niggers in the South before
they learn their place again"
The leader., 1901-10-30

The Gulfport Southwark has sus-
pended publication after running six
years, and has been moved by Editor
Blankenship to Columbia. Our brother
Blankenship, whose name well BELTS
the seacoast, must be afraid of "deep
water; or why should he forsake the
great terminal of the Gulf & Ship
Island for the small inland city of
Columbia?
The leader., 1901-10-30

SENATOR C1RHACk.S WEBS.
Senator E. W. Carmack of Tennes-
see, has expressed some views on the
dining of Booker r. Washington. which
we'll express the Southern position Oh
the question: ut has caused general
feeling of disappointment and disgust
in the South" said Senator Carmack.
This is especially true among those
who have been inclined to wander off
| from the Democratic party in recent
elections, and who had persuaded
themselves that the Republican party
had come to take the Southern white
man 5 view of the negro question.
"What some people choose to de
scribe as race prejudice is as strong
among the better classes of Republi-
cans, at least in my State, as it is
among Democrats. 1t is, in fact,
feeling common to all people with
white skins. The Memphis Scimitar,
for instance, which was especially Sc
we're III its criticism of that dinner,
supported Mr.. Mckinley both in 1896
and 1900, and seemed to be an extrava-
CANT admirer of President Roosevelt.
The white people of the South will
not yield one jot or title upon this
question. You may call it race
prejudice, but, to our opinion, it is
simply the racial instinct of self
preservation. Whatever it be. the
man who sins against it, according to
the view held by our people, and I be
lieve by very large proportion of the
white people everywhere, sins against
his own color and his own race"
Commenting upon the appointment
of Southern Democrats to Office, Sen
ator Carmack added:
II think the Importance of these APP
pointments has been largely eXag-
geratcd. In the appointment of eX-
Governor Jones, of Alabama, Mr..
Roosevelt was simply following the
path blazed out by Mr.. Mckinley. Mr.
Mckinley was the first President who
had the holiness and the cleverness to
use the power of patronage to de
moraljze his adversary. lie knew that,
if those who left the Democratic party
in 1896 were let alone, they would
inevitably drift back to their old party
relations. He, therefore, sought to
make the separation permanent by
proper distribution of the loaves and
fishes, and, whenever one boiling Dem
ocrat got bite, it encouraged hope in
the bosom of fifty Others"
The leader., 1901-10-30

Capt. Henry Hawkins, prominent
citizen and Mason, sixty years of age,
shot and killed himself on the 23rd.
He leaves wife and six children. mo
cause assigned" but there was some
thing vitality wrong or sorrowful in
this mans life, or he would be living
to-day. Men don't kill themselves
when they are happy.
The leader., 1901-10-30

Edward S. Stokes, as he lay in a
dying condition in New York last week,
was haunted as he has been for more
than quarter of century by the
face OF his victim, James Fisk, whom
he killed about twenty-five years ago.
Day and night the memory of his deed
has been before him, until delirium
set in and the horrible night-m be-
came unbearable. Josie Mansfield,
the beautiful woman who was the
cause OF the trouble, is living in CON
tentment and luxury in Europe.
The leader., 1901-10-30

y negro women's organization ap-
piled for membership in the Fedora.
ton of Women's Clubs of Missouri
and there was hot fight over the mat
ter. To avoid trouble the question was
postponed until the next annual meet.
ing. By that time We will know how
the Roosevelt Washington dinner
agreed with the public; meantime the
color line is drawn further north than
Mason Il Dixon's, we observe.
The leader., 1901-10-30

JAS II. Duke, formerly of the Scooba
Herald, has been "translated from the
confines of local or state journalism
to field which contemplates the larg
est interest in the South" He has been
made president Of The American Gin
ner and Cotton Reporter, weekly
publication which was established at
Meridian in 1897. We wish Mr.. Duke
success in the broad field upon which
he has entered.
The leader., 1901-10-30

Gentry's Dog and Pony Show opened
up for a weeks engagement at New
Orleans Monday Performing monkeys
have been added to the show: which is
a step in advance according to the
Darwinian theory.
The leader., 1901-10-30

Eleven hundred immigrants arrived
on the Manila at New Orleans last
Thursday. 80 per cent. were women
They were, Intellectually and physi-
cally, fine company of peasants, said
the physicians. Several hundreds
have been offered employment by the
railroads at $3.50 day.
The leader., 1901-10-30

Henry Rightor, the accomplished
young poet and dramatist, who was
formerly a member of the Times
Democrat staff, has been honored by
being elected member of the Ameri
can Dramatists' Club of New York
The requirements for membership in
this club are very rigid.
The leader., 1901-10-30
THE LAST LEAF.

saw him once before,
As he passed by the door,
And again
The pavement stones resound,
As he totters DER the ground
With his cane.
They say that in his prime
Ere the pruning-knife Of Time
Cut him down,
Not better man was found
by the Crier on his round
Through the town.
But now he walks the streets.
And he looks at all he meets
Sad and wan,
And he shakes his feeble head
That it seems as II he said.
They are gone"
The messy marbles rest
On the lips that he has prest
In their bloom,
And the names he loved to hear
Have been carved for many a year
On the tomb.
My grandmamma has said
Poor old lady she is dead
Long ago
That he had Roman nose.
And his cheek was like rose
In the snow.
But now his nose is thin,
And 1t rests upon his chin
Like a staff,
And crook is in his back,
And melancholy crack
In his laugh.
l know it is a sin
For me to sit and grin
At him here:
But the old three-cornered hat,
And the breecheS, and all that
Are so queer
And II | should live TO be
The last leaf on the tree
In the spring,
Let them smile as do now.
At the old forsaken bough
Where | cling. - HoLME,
The leader., 1901-10-30

Now" said the professor, "why is
it that the blood rushes into my head
when l stand on it; but doesn't rush
into my feet?" Because they are not
empty, said the bright boy.
The leader., 1901-10-30
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The leader., 1901-10-30
Bankrupt Notice.
In the District Court of the United States fC
the Southern District of Mississippi.

In the matter of +. Simon, Bankrupt.
At Jackson. Mississippi. in said district. on
the end day of October, AID. 1901, before W. l..
Nugent, Referee in Bankruptcy.
Take notice that pursuant to the provisions
Section IS, of the Act of Congress entitled AN
Act to Establish a Uniform system of Bank
ruptcy throughout the United States,n approved
July l, 1885, meeting of the creditors of the
aboye-named bankrupt will be held at my Office
In the City of Jackson. in said district, on the
Sth day of November, A. d., 1901 for the pur-
pose of examining the Trustees report and
declaring a dividend
In order to participate in any distribution that
may be made, proof of debt is required. Kindly
give this matter your prompt attention, and
Oblge. Yours truly,
WIN. l.. NUGENT,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
The leader., 1901-10-30

The Clarion Ledger has offered q
private box party at the Century thea
tire to the lady teacher of the Capital
who is voted the most popular.
The leader., 1901-10-30

Graduates hold leading positions all ever the
connuy. Instruction all personal
Having numerous business co q ec4isns and
being universally and rePutably Known, we
have superior advantages in asdiAg students to
secure situations.
SRA store 10 coanected with SoalS CoNees
10 which studsnn do actual basineas With
real goods and actual money, and they keep
the books In the latest labor saving forEA
Students enter At any time. Kngiish, Ans-
deEic. Shorthand and Business schools. Al
separate facultisA Send for o.taaoKaa-
Address GEO. SOULS q e04A
The leader., 1901-10-30

The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children is getting in some
good work in New Orleans.
The leader., 1901-10-30

Leading furniture factories of the
South organized Southern Furniture
Manufacturers Association at Chatta.
nooga, Tenn, last Wednesday.
The leader., 1901-10-30

Hazlehurst will have a new opera
house by joint stock company.
The leader., 1901-10-30

Circus day at Jackson last Friday
brought 10000 people to that city.
The leader., 1901-10-30

Turpentine operators met in New
Orleans last Monday.
The leader., 1901-10-30
B. T. HOBBS, Editor and Proprietor.
ANNOUNCEMENT.

For District No. I.
We are authorized to announce
SAMPSON r. WEST
As a candidate for Constable of District No. /.
Lincoln County, Miss, at the special election TO
be held Nov. 9Th, 1901.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-28
AT THE CHURCHES TO-DAY.

St. Lukes chapel, Cary.-seryice
and sermon at 1850 D. m.
Saint Saviour Chapel-Sunday school at
10 a. IN. Night service and sermon at 8
D. m. Seats all free. Every one invited
Church Of the Good Shepherd. Rev.
T. Mex. Pitttenger, ID. D., rector. Third
Sunday after Easter Sunday school !.
9:45 a. m. Service and sermon at II a.
m. and 8 .. m. The seats are all free
and strangers ore cordially invited.
Presbyterian Church-Rev. E. Daniel
d. d. pastor. Services II a. m. and 8
D. m; Sunday school $50 a. M. West
minister League 1880 p. m. Seats are
all free. Ushers in attendance. A cor
dial invitation is given to all services.
Baptist Tabernacle-Rev Mr.. Steven
son, the city missionary, will preach at
the IL o'clock a. m. service. On account
city. Dr. Hubbard will preach at the
First Baptist church tomorrow at II a. m
Central Methodist Church-l2ev. G. T.
Adams, pastor. Sunday school 8: 80 a. m.
L. H. Woodall, Superintendent. Preach
ing at IL a. m. and p. m. by the pastor
EDworth League meets every Monday
night D. A. Pierce, president The pub
lie cordially invited to all these services.
Edenton Street Methodist Church Sunday
school $50 a. M, Joseph G. Brown, sup
erintendent Preaching II a. m. and s
D. m. by Rev. G. f. Smith Reports
from Missionary Societies and special
sermon to them at Ii o'clock. Fpworth
League will meet Monday at D. m
Rev. H. =. Anderson. president
Sacred Heart Catholic Church-Father
Griffin, rector Third Sunday after
Easter First mass at 7:30 a. M; high
Bishop Haid viii preach at IL a. m. and
administer the sacrament of confrma-
tiori at s p. m. All are cordially invited
to these services.
Christ Church-Rev NJ. NJ Marshall
D. D., rector. Third Sunday after Easter
Holy communion at a. m. Sunday
school 10 a. M: divine service and ser
mon II a. M. evening prayer p. m.
Services during the week: Wednesday
(SS. Philip and James, 10 a, IN. and 6
p. m. Friday 10 a. m. Free seats. All
cordially invited.
First Baptist Church-Dr. w. D. Hub
hard, pastor of the Tabernacle church,
will occupy the pulpit at IL a. m, in the
absence of the pastor, DR.. A. A. Mar
shall, who will deliver the University
sermon at Chapel Hill At p. m, DIR.
Livingston Johnson, Secretary of State
missions, will conduct the services. The
Sunday school. Mr.. j. d. BoushalI super
intendent, meets at $50 a. m. A cordial
invitation is extended to all. to attend
these services.