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The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-01-02
CATTLE REPORTED STAR
WING.
Showed in on High Range
Without Food or Water.

Thousands of cattle are re-
ported to be starving on the
range in northwestern Colorado.
The humane society appealed to
the owners to rescue their stock,
and they have replied that they
are powerless to do so. The cat
tie are showed in on high range
at Routt and Rio Blanco counties,
without pasture and without
water. It is impossible to get
feed to them and equally impos-
sible to drive them into suitable
winter quarters.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-01-02
Oil Trust AbSOrbS
The Texas Fields.
Rockefeller Interests Get Con
troll of Companies at
Beaumont and
Jennings

The Standard Oil Company at
last has secured control OF the
Beaumont oil fields in Texas and
the Jennings oil region in Louisi-
ana.
The fact has just leaked out
that the trust is master OF tie
situation.
There are only a few small
companies remaining outside.
The Guffey Company and the
Waters Pierce Oil Company are
under control of the Standard.
The Waters Pierce Company has
been a subsidiary corporation OF
the trust for several years, but
the Guffey Company recently was
purchased. This company Will
be operated as separate cor
poration with the old, in order TO
eyade the Texas antitrust laws.
The Haywood Oil Company
which practically controls the
Jennings field in Louisiana IS
now owned by the Standard, ac-
cordins to statements made III
New Orleans financial circles,
and this gives the trust monopo-
ly of the two fields.
The price of fuel oil has been
ADVANCED to ST a barrel. and the
indications are the quotations
will go still higher.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-01-02
Bleeding Kansas.
SO Often Shocked By The
South. Shocks Herself.
Hangs a Suspected Negro
Murderer in the Streets
of One of Her Most
Thriving Towns
and Does it
Most Bru-
tally Too.

Montgomery Cooley, colored,
was taken from the Pittsburg,
Kansas, jail December 25th, by a
crowd of men, who hanged him,
cut his throat and again hanged
him. The men who lynched
Cooley said they believed the
negro had deliberately murdered
Policeman Milton Hinkley early
this morning at a Christmas
dance. Cooley had been in jail
but two hours when the MOB
seized him.
The victim of the mob was
given a short hearing in the
jailyard before he was executed.
He did not confess to the mur-
der, but the lynchers carried
him three blocks from the jail
without the slightest interferen-
ce from the jailers. A rope was
secured, and Cooley was hanged
to telephone pole, in spite of
his pleas for mercy and protesta-
tions of innocence.
The negro struggled and the
rope broke. AS Cooley struck
the ground a man seized him by
the throat. The negro again
protested his innocence, and beg
ged for a trial. The mans only
answer was to draw claspknife
across Godley's throat, severing
the jugular vein.
Again the mob seized the eX-
plring victim and this time hang
ed a corpse.
1t has since developed that
they hung the wrong negro and
they then went after the other
one but with what success We
didn't learn.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-01-02
Labor Savers.

Negro tie-cuttefs in Mississip-
ri complain that they are being
deprived of employment by the
introduction of tie-crtting ma
chine of recent invention which
is being largely used by contrac:
tors who are filling orders for
the various railroads. In the
hardwood belts the use OF the
machine is steadily growing, and
il has been demonstrated to be q
practical success.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-01-02
and stand a chance of averaging

and stand a chance OF averaging
% per cent.
This profit. We should remem
Der. has been made ON farms not
nearly so well equipped as those
in the North and East with
fewer modern appliances and
machinery. Yet even with this
handicap our Southern farmer
clears % per cent more ON his
investment than the farmer of
other sections.
This story told by the census
figures has not only moral but
a vein of prophecy. The path
of prosperity is in the line OF
least resistance. Ii the South
ern farmer is now making a
larger per cent on his investment
than those of other sections.
then the South ought 10 De get
ting rich faster than any other
section. And when we remem-
ber that nearly all the wealth OF
the Southern states has been
built up since the war, we are
inclined to believe that this
theory is true.
There is no need Of any section
al exhortatiOns. 1t is cold bust
ness. In matters of commerce,
at least, the race is to the swift.
Let those who would pick the
winner glance at the above time
table.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-01-02
National Debts.

The worlds national debts
form the subject Of all interest
ing report by 0. P. Austin, the
chief of the bureau of statistics,
in the treasury department.
According to Mr.. Austin's esti-
mate, the national debts of the
world amount to S3l 900, 900, 600.
The interest and other charges
on this indebtedness of the ma
tions amount to a hundred mill
ion dollars a monitor 81, POO
900, 900 annually.
The principal national debts
of the world today, stated in the
order Of their magnitude, are as
follows: France-the largest
x5, 800. .OOO,OO Russia. $3. l67, :
O9O, 900; United Kingdom. 50, O6O,
900, 900; Italy, 1888, 900, 900;
Germany. and the German states
50, 573, 900, 900; Spain, 81. .72S, 600,
1000; Australia. Hungary, 81, 154, :
OOO,OO India, $l,03l, 900, 600;
United States. $4,000, 0l0;; and
all other countries. IS. .375, OOO,-
900.
Mr.. Austin's report also brings
out the interesting fact that dur.
ing the last 20 years the English
speaking countries have been
the mostconservative about their
national debts, constantly MAX
ing efforts to reduce their obli-
cations; while Latin countries,
on the otherhand, have constant
ly increased their national debts,
both through wars and by main
tanning large standing armies,
and by reason of constant defi-
cits in their budgets. Mr.. Austin
further shows that some OF the
Latin nations have made bond
issues that were announced as
perpetual and there is no in
tention of ever redeeming them.
At the present time one-half OF
the enormous debt OF France
stands i'm the form of perpetual
2 per cent rentes." The Ger
man and Slavic nations have also
rapidly increased their debts and
have shown little progress IN re-
ducing them. ATLANTA Journal.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-01-02
Horrible Thought.

WELL said the cheerful WIFE,
who thought she had soprano
voice. eff the worst comes to the
worst Icould keep the wolf from
the door by singing.
II don't doubt that would 90
IT., replied her pessimistic hus-
band. abut suppose the wolf
should happen to be deal
Philadelphia Press.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-01-02
Texas Truck Growing
Big Money in Fruit and
Truck Farming in East
>ern Texas.
Supplying the EARLY Markets
of the North a New
Southwestern
Industry.

Owing to favorable conditions
of climate and soil in Northern
and Eastern Texas, the raising
of early fruits and vegetables for
shipment to Northern markets
has become very profitable.
Fruits and truck mature in this
section, and are shipped and
marketed. before the products
from either Georgia, Florida or
California get to market.
During the season solid train
loads of fruit and vegetables are
made up on the Cotton Belt from
Tyler, Jacksonville, and other
local points on the line, and rush
ed through to the Northern and
Eastern cities.
Not only are the conditions for
marketing favorable, but enor-
nous yields OF peaches. tomatoes,
pears. berries and garden truck
are invariably secured. The
quality of the fruit produced is
second to none in America, the
peaches especially, not yielding
even to the famous California
product. Fully 60 per cent. of
the orchards are set in the famous
Elberta peaches, which are sur
passed by none in flavor. size
and quality. Mountain Rose,
ST. Johns and Nixon Clings are
also raised with remarkable.
Lands ia this section are rapid
ly being purchased and conver-
ted into orchards and gardens.
At Alto, on the Cotton Belt Route,
an immense orchard of several
thousand acres has been planted
by experienced fruit growers
from Michigan. who were quick
to recognize the natural adyan-
tages of this country. In two
wears this orchard Will commence
the shipment of enormous guam
titles of fruit.
Notwithstanding the rapidity
with which the land is being
taken up, much desirable land
can still be obtained for from
SO. so to $1O.0 per acre.
Those desiring to visit this sec
ton may take advantage OF round
trip Homeseekers' rates OF one
way fare plus $500, or one one
way Colonist rates Of half the
one way fare plus $500. in effect
on the first and third Tuesdays
of each month.
Among the excellent pnblica-
tions on this subject sent free on
application is a little booklet en-
titled. Fortunes in Growing
Fruits and Vegetables, issued
by the Passenger Department OF
the Cotton Belt Route at St.
Louis, Mo.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-01-02
Farmers Stay South.

The Atlanta journal very apt
ly says: The South is perhaps less
given to Wanting its own achieve
ments than any other section.
Our own people, indeed, hear SO
much Of the vast possibilities and
output of the North and West,
which are SO diligently exploited,
that they forget the often superior
resources of their own part of
the country.
We have heard great deal
recently of the farming lands in
the West, and how the new
Egypt lies between the Missis-
sippi and the Rocky mountains.
We have listened, agape with
wonder, at the marvellous stories
of wheat oceans and corn lakes
in Nebraska and the Dakotas.
And these pictures are mainly
truthful. That the great west is
"a land abounding in corn and
wine"-that it is one of the worlds
granaries-cannot be doubted.
But the fact is that whoever
wants to go into the farming
business, if he already lives in
the South, would be better to
stay where he is. And if his
dwelling place is in another sec
ton. he would do well to come
South:
This sounds surprising. But
figures are frequently surprising.
The census of 1900 shows the
tota. value Of farms and OF farm
products for that year IN the
various states. These statistls-
tics give some striking results.
The figures recently given out
may be already familiar to the
reader but. will bear republica-
tion:
Value of farm property in the
South So, ,951, 631. .632,
Value of farm properts, whole
United States. $50, 439, 9O1. 1O4.
Net value of farm products,
deducting that fed to stock:
The South 5 9eo, 9Oo, o63
Whole u. S. 1881, 3O6. .617
Net earnings of farms in the
South, 25 per cent.
Net earnings of farms in the
whole country. 16.2 per cent.
Net earning Of farms outside
of the southern states, less than
10 per cent.
These figures are eye-openers.
Yet they are governmentreports.
They have but one message.
There is more profit to be made
out of a farm in the South than
i'm any other section of the coun-
try.
There are poor lands and there
are rich lands. both in the South
and elsewhere.
1t is the aggregate percentage
of profit on aggregate invest
ment that tells the tale. And it
is a tale that needs no pointing
of moral, because the moral is
self evident.
.'You can t farm in the South" "
is a phrase that is not infrequent-
ly heard. We trust that the pub
lication of the above figures will
forever put an end to such ridi-
culous vaporings. The plain
truth of the matter is, that there
is more money to be made, on an
equal investment. from farming
in the Southern States, than
from any other business not de
pendent on chance or patent pro
lection. 1t would be sheer folly
for anyone thinking OF investing
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-01-02

Don't forget the News Office
when you have Job Work to do.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-06
THE MEN AND WOMEN
Who Enjoy the Choicest Products
of the Worlds Commerce.
Knowledge of What Is Best More Im-
portant Than Wealth With
out 1t.

It must be apparent to every one that
qualities of the highest order are neces-
sary to enable the best of the products of
modern commerce to attain permanently
to universal acceptance. However loudly
heralded, they may not hope for world wide
prominence unless they meet with the
general approval. not of individuals only.
but of the many who have the happy
faculty of selecting. enjoying and learn
ing the real worth of the choicest prod
ucts. Their commentator, consequently,
becomes important to others, since to
meet the requirements of the we'll in
formed of all countries the method of
manufacture must be of the most per-
feet order and the combination the most
excellent of it's kind. The above is true
not of food products only, but is espe-
cially applicable to medicinal agents and
after nearly quarter of century of
growth and general use the excellent
remedy. Syrup of Figs, is everywhere
accepted, throughout the world. as the
best Of family laxatlves. Its quality is
due not only to the excellence OF the
combination of the laxative and carmin-
ative principles of plants known to act
most beneflcially on the system and pre-
sented in the form of a pleasant and re-
freshing liquid. but also to the method
OF manufacture of the California Fig
Syrup Co.. which ensures that uniformi-
ty and purity essential In remedy in
tended for family use. Ask any physi-
clan who is well informed and he will
answer at once that 1t is an excellent
laxative. If at ali eminent in his pro-
fesslon and has made special study Of
laxatives and their effects upon the sys-
tenn he will tell you that 1t Is the best
of family laXatives. because 1t Is SIM
pie and wholesome and cleanses and
sweetens the system effectually. when
| a laxative is needed, without any un-
| pleasant after-effects. Every well-in-
| formed druggist of reputable standing
knows that Syrup of Figs Is an excel
lent laxative and is glad to sell it, at
the regular price of fifty cents per bot
| tie, beaause 1t gives general satisfac-
| ton. but one should remember that in
order to get the beneficial effects of
| Syrup of Figs 1t is necessary to buy the
| genuine, which Is sold in original pack
| ages only; the name of the remedy
| Syrup OF Figs and also the full name of
| the Company-CNlifornia Fig Syrup Co.
printed on the front OF every package.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-06

Venezuelan authorities accuse the
Germans of looting the warship Res
taurador before returning it to the
government.
Mabini, the former president of the
Filipino supreme court, has taken
the oath of allegiance to the United
States.
Pedro Aalvarado, a multimillionaire
of Mexico, has offered to contribute
$5o,oOo,ooo for the payment of the ma
tional debt,
The continued eruptions of the CO.
lima volcano in Mexico has created an
immense panic in all regions within 20
miles of the mountain.
A cyclone in England, Ireland and
Wales killed scores of people and a
railroad train was blown from the
track and the British steamer Otter
caps sank with 80 persons.
Five hundred Chinese government
troops were ambushcd and killed by
rebels in Yang-Ning and the revolt is
spreading into Human.
The United States will be appealed
to by Bolivia to prevent war with
Brazil over the Acre territory.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-06
MINOR NLWS ITEMS.

In western Canada 260,0O0,000 acres
of arabic land today await the plow.
Union veterans who lost an arm in
the war are to have their pensions in
creased to SAG.
With gift of $3.50, ,0O0recently to Co.
|lumbia college a department of health
and science will be established.
1t is said that King Leopold of Bel
gium will visit the United States dur
ing the Easter holidays next year.
The Prussian statistical office re-
ports that there are 70,S29 insane pa
tients in the 279 asylums of Prussia.
New measurements confirm the re-
port that Mount Mckinley, in Alaska,
is the highest peak in North America.
The Nickel Plate road has granted
an increase in wages averaging about
per cent. to conductors, trainmen and
switchmen.
The department of superintendent
of the National Educational associa-
ton has elected Henry r. Emerson, of
Buffalo, president.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
adopted an amendment to the army
bill appropriating $4,000 to provide
wine for the soldiers.
1t is reported that the Rock Island
railroad has secured control of the
Frisco system, which will make it the
largest railway in the world.
King Edward has conferred the
grand cross of ST. Michael and st.
George on Sir Michael Herbert, the
British ambassador at Washington.
The first work has been struck on
the work of constructing the Pennsyl-
vania railroad tunnel under the East
and North rivers and through New
York city.
An alleged plot of New York bell
boys to rob hotels astounds the police,
who say the accused had correspond
ents in leading cities and We're compil-
ing list of wealthy persons,
Public business was suspended in the
lower house of the Nebraska legisla-
ture recently to permit of memorial
exercises in honor of j. Sterling Nor
ton, founder of Arbor day and former
secretary Of agriculture.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad an
nounces a 76-mie cutoff will be built
through the Allegheny mountains
from Dexter to Irwin (Pal; two-thirds
of the needed 37,3S9 feet tunneling are
already finished. The work will cost
$2o,000,000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-06
personal AND POLITICAL.

Henry Farrer, one of the best
known water-color painters in Amer
lea, died in New York, aged 60 years.
Barbara Bell, aged So years, and Jo-
seph Hawkins, aged "a, her adopted
son, were secretly married in South
Bend, Ind.
Conrad n. Jordan, assistant treas
urer of the United States at the sub
treasury in New York city, died of the
grip, aged 73 years.
DR.. Richard Jordan Gatling, in
ventor of the gun bearing his name,
died suddenly at the home of his
daughter in New York, aged s4 years.
John C. Felimore, founder of the Or
der of United Commercial Travellers,
died at his home in Columbus, o., aged
IS years.
Former Congressman Jehu Baker
died at Belleville, ILL.,, aged 81 years.
He had served also as minister to
Venezuela.
EX-Congressman Rodney Wallace
died at his home in Fitchburg- Mass.
Gen. William Farrar Smith, better
known as "Baldy" Smith, one of the
prominent figures of the civil war,
died at his home in Philadelphia,
aged so years.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-06
LATER.

DIR. Charles Fl. ohr, aged 90, is dead
at Cumberland, Md. 1t is claimed
that he was the oldest Mason in the
United States. He was grand master
Mason of Maryland in 1910, and was
active in Masonry through the anti!
Mason excitement, due to the Morgan
abduction incident in New York. DR..
Ohr introduced the use of strychnine
as a treatment for cholera during the
epidemic of 1858.
The Chinese government is contem-
plating the establishment of a great
lottery as a means of increasing the
revenues.
AN embargoes on freight recently
placed by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Co. and the Pennsylvania lines west
of Pittsburg during the period of con.
gestion have been lifted.
At Canaan, Conn.,, the Cummings
block, containing the postoffice, the
bank of Fuller & Poets, and Collins
| jewelry store was burned to the
ground. 1t is believed the fire was
started by burglars after they had
looted the safes in the building.
The failure of A. B. Turner & Bro.
the stock exchange. The firm was
largely interested in mining and west.
ern railway projects. The failure is
attributed to the stringency of the
money market.
Secretary Hay and Sir Michael Her.
bert, the British ambassador, have
exchanged ratifications of the Alas
kan boundary treaty. The prepara~
tion of the cases of the two sides
will proceed with all speed as, under
the treaty. they must be submitted
to the arbitrators within 60 days.
The inhabitants of the Arran isl
ands are in a state of semi-starvatior
in consequence of the prolonged
storms on the west coast of Ireland
The wants of the population are or
dinarily supplied by steamer three
times weekly. but communication
with the islands has been completely
cut off since February 21.
The strike of coat tailors which
was inaugurated at Philadelphia
when 1000 hands refused to go tc
work, has extended to Egg Harbor
n. j., where 1900 operators, pressers
and .buttonhole workers struck. Ir
Philadelphia another union of but
tonhole workers has quit work, max
ing the total number of idle hands
there and in Egg Harbor about $500.
On the Sd the house agreed to the
conference reports on all but two OF
the big supply bills, Notwithstanding
the filibustering tactics of the demo
Gratis. The senate was in continuous
session and finished consideration OF
all the big appropriation bills.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-06
Through and Through.

New Bedford, Mass, Mar. 2nd.-At 65s
First St., this city, lives a very happy man.
His name is Uric Levasseur, and he certain
ly has good reason to feel glad and proud
time with general weakness and sore pain
in his back. AT the last he got so bad that
he could not talk without great misery.
Now he is well and in speaking of this won
edrful change in him he says:
81 believe it to be my duty to tell every
l could not stoop; in fact, l was unable to
wall, without great pain. I began taking
Dodd's Kidney Pills and aftera two months
treatment | am well and sound again.
"Dodd's Kidney Pills are God-sent rem
edy., J. will always praise them for their
wonderful cure of my case. They cured me
through and through. l am as strong and
able man now as l ever wasn
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-06

Innumerable advantages afforded Farm
ers, Miners and Manufacturers in Tennes-
see, Western Kentucky, North Alabama
and Georgia in the region traversed by the
Nashville, Chattanooga g. st. Louis Ry.
Write for copies of the following pamph-
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No. l-Agricultural Products, Live Stock
Ind Grazing Lands, Poultry Raising.
No. 2-Tobacco Culture.
No. 3-Water Powers and Eligible Sites
for Manufacturing Industries.
No. tTimber Resources.
No. 5-Mineral Deposits and Mining In
terests.
No. Glands for Sale.
No. Peach Growing.
Soil and Geological Map of Tennessee.
Copies will be sent to any address free OF
charge. H. F. SMITH,
Traffic Manager, Nashville, Tenn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-06

N/OMEN should beware of contract
" ing catarrh. The cold wind and
rain, slush and mud of winter are espe-
cially conducive to catarrhal derange-
ments. Few women escape.
Upon the first symptoms of catching
cold Peruna should be taken. 1t forti-
fies the system against colds and ca
tarrh.
The following letter gives one young
woman's experience with Peruna:
Miss Rose Gerbing is popular society
woman of Crown Point, Ind, and she
writes the following:
Recently took a long drive in the
country, and being too thinly clad
caught a bad cold which settled on my
lungs, and which could not seem to
shake off. 1 had heard a great deal OF
Peruna for colds and catarrh and !
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-06

bought a bottle to try. am pleased
that / did, for it brought speedy relief.
1t only took about two bottles, and I
considered this money well spent.
"You have a firm friend in me, and I
not only advise Its use to my friends, but
have purchased several bottles to give
to those without the means to buy, and
have noticed without exception that it
has brought about q speedy cure where
ever it has been used. Miss Rose
Gerbing.
If you do not derive prompt and satis-
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DIR. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President Of