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The Monte Vista journal., 1903-09-19
Concerning Rev. o. $. Baum.
Resolutions Adopted by the Presby tc.
rian Church gu His Resignation.

lions as the SINCERE experience and ex-
preston OF the First Presbyterian
Church Of Monte Vista, assembled in
duly called congregational meeting to
take action upon the request of the pas
tor for leave to resign the pastorate of
said church.
WHEREAS, Rev. q. S. Baum. aur be.
loved pastor aud leader for more than
eight years whose iabors and life have
been IN beautiful harmony and under
Gods blessing achieved the most signal
success in hi, ministry upon this field
and being now most earnestly sought
after by number OF important
churches, whose attention has been
taken by the phenomenal success at
tanned here, until his spirit has no rest
feeling the call aud entreaty to larger
prospective usefulness. This, with
other claims upon him and cousidera-
tons asks the church to join him in re
quest to the Pfcsbyter, for dissolution
OF the relation OF pastor OF this Church
in order 10 receiving call extended by
the Highland Park Presbyterian Church
OF Denver, and
WHEREAS, The Session and Deacons
Board of Trustees, with leading bust.
ness men in the Church and Community.
do greatly deprccate such separation
and have tried b. various considerations,
financial and otherwise To dissuade h.m
from such step at this time, Offering
him an extended vacation OF many
months il need he for rest with cou;in-
uance Of salary, the providing Of supply
Tor his pulpit, and opportunity tor q
much desired tour of the Orient, all of
which have failed to move him to Il re
consideration or recall of request.
RESOLVED FIRsT, THEREFORE,, Know
ing the sinccrit. Of his purp,>c and his
pauline spiri, OF decision, We cease our
en!reaty and say, The Will of tn. Lord
be done" anu realizing and recognizing
the CO partnership in all that pertains to
the Cause and Kingdom Of Our Divine
Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, while
feeling our loss personally and "a II
church, aud asking forgiveness for our
seltishness, We pray the Great Head of
the Church Jesus ou- Lord, that he will
send Us one as under Shepherd whose
service VIII meet our need and His ap
prevail
RESOLVED SboNn, That We commend
to the Highland Park Presbyterian
Church Of Denver, Rev .. $. Baum, our
greatly beloved pastor man OF God,
largely endowed IN ministerial Iualiiica
tons. ever faithful and fearless, u man Of
good culture 81 mind and grace OF heart,
and conviction nj soul, aud -arncstness
OF spirit, whose desire viii be To know
the Masters will, and do and teach II,
always seeking Your attainment OF the
highest ideal IN Christian living aud all
pertaining I" your success in life indi
ridually and as church. May God
bless la, ialors and enlarge you ia all
Jour heaven given mission ~ home and
abroad, IL our prayer for YOU.
R,soLNrD THIRD. That IN giving up our
pastor after eight year, OF such signnlly
successful service IN every branch IL
church work, under God We hereby ne.
kno"l"dg" our Indebtedness to his wise,
earnest, eloquent aud timely leadership.
hs- faithful preaching, his diligcnt pas
AL H.IA All a.. .s.ats Ha.aaa
The Monte Vista journal., 1903-09-19
The One Who Paints

ia the best Judge of the
quality If the paints used.
The man who makes n bust
ness Of painting likes what We
sell. The woman who only
does little painting for her.
self likes the palpt We handle
Its ready TO put on;
sold in any SIZED cans;
made in any color
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-08-26
OBJECT TO BLACK NEIGHBOR
Negro Pugilist Buys Home on
Fashionable Street.

Joe Walcott, the colored prize fight
err, has bought the house in Belmont
next door 10 that of E. S. Converse,
the wealthiest man in the city, and
moved in. His family consists of a
mulatto wife, four young children, a
Il year old sister and his white moth
er-in-law
Walcott paid S5O,OOO for the house.
Col. H. S. Converse, son of E. S. Con.
verse, who also lives in the Eeighbcr
hood, tried TO buy the properly, but
Walcott would not sell for reasonable
price. Walcott says if his new neigh
bors do not like to have colored fam
lily so near them they can move or buy
him out.
Asked what he would. sell for he
said, 81 will sell for nice advance on
what the place has cost me.'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-08-26
ASKED CHARITY LICENSE.
Judge Said Man With No Money
Should Not Wed.

A we'll known Augustan and a con-
federate veteran drawing a pension
from the state made application TO
Judge Walton for the gift of mar
riage license, announcing his inten-
ton to take unto himself a wife.
The following is note that he sent
to Judge Walton by personal friend:
"Mr Walton. My Dear Sir: 1 have
made up my mind to take me a wife,
and l call upon you to grant me a H.
cense free, if it may be in your power.
My money is skerce Is why call upou
you. Please let me here by Mr.. T.
and oblige. Aug. "a, 1903"
Judge Walton is an admirer of cheek,
but this request was one step too far
in that direction. The petitioner re-
ceived a note that declined the call,
and suggested that an old man who
was unable to paw flor a marriage IL
cense had no business to indulge in a
matrimonial step.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-08-26
WORMS VANISHED BY BIRDS.
Farmers Receive Unexpected Aid
in Fight Against CaterpilIars.

Countless thousands of black birds
suddenly appearing in great droves
settled upon the cotton fields of Sum.
ter county a few mornings ago and
played havoc with the caterpillars.
The appearance of the black birds as.
tonsished the farmers, as these birds
always come in the fall season and are
never seen here in summer.
The birds attackedthe caterpillars,
devouring them ravenously, aad bush.
els OF the cotton pests were thus de-
stroyed in day.
If the black birds continue the set
Element of the caterpillar problem
may be reached unexpectedly.
Farmers have applied barrels of
paris green in efforts to kill the cater.
pillars. and in some localities have
succeeded.
The black birds, however, may prove
more effective in destroying the worms
which now threaten destruction to the
cotton fields.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-08-26
ROCKEFELLER'S BIG LOSS.
Believed That His Fortune Has
.Shrunk S1OO,OOO,OOO.

Conservative men in Wall street es-
innate that the Rockefeller family
fortune has shrunk 500, 900. 900 in val
ue under the influence of the slump in
securities.
The apparent loss TO the friends of
j. p. Morgan has been great. William
c. Whitney and those who are allied
with him have suffered reverses that
have hurt. John w. Gates and the
other members of the "Chicago
crowd" are nursing wounds that will
be long in healing. James II. Keene
admits loss OF s1,5OO,O0O. Some be-
lieve Mr.. Keene's fortune has shrunk
much more.
Thus it may be seen that the storm
which swept across the financial dis
trict and which may not as yet have
reached its elimination, has spare d
few in selecting it's victims. 1t NAV be
taken as proven that it was of natural
origin, having been formed by the
purpose of will of no combination Of
men.
1t is the general opinion of those
who have weathered such storms in
the past that the present unpleasant
ness is TO be accounted for just as was
the great era of prosperity, One was
the result of natural causes, the other
came as natural consequence OF the
first. Men who discovered the si:ua-
ticn said that the exhaustion is tenn
porary, and that it does not approach
the lethargy which seized the couu-
try little more than ten years ago.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-08-26
BLACKS dine; WHITES WAIT
A HUMAIATING INCIDENT OCCURS INA
SOUTHERN TOWN,
Booker Washington and His Party Had
Breakfast, While White Passengers
Curbed Hunger TO Save Pride.

While Booker Washington Of Tugs
kegee, Ala, and party of some thlrty
or forty negro men and women enioyed
a hearty breakfast in the main dlnlne
room of the eating station at Hamlet,
N. c., Sunday morning Senator A. o.
Bacon, Joel Hurt of Atlanta, Hon, r.
]. Shackleford of Clarke county and
many Others, among them several we'll
known Georgians, walked around on
the outside and went hungry.
Washington and his party occupied
a chartered Pullman on the nosthS
bound train, which went into Hamlet
on the Seaboard AIR Line Sunday
morning Hamlet is junction polnt
where connection for various places
are made. 1t is also the eating stag
ton.
When the morning train arrived
there Senator Bacon and Others len
the car to get breakfast, but were sur
prised on reaching the dining room ~
find it occupied by Washington and
his party. Surprise was followed bv
indignation, and when the white pas,
sengers were INVITED to partaae OF
breakfast in a small improvised dinlpe
room of the eating house all but one
or two OF them refused.
just to make matters more intereQts
ing there gathered about the dlnina
room and peered in at the doors and
windows a crowd of 10 cal negroes, who
seemed TO enjoy the situation as much
or more than did the Booker Washing
ton party.
The meal finished, the negroes oaue
from the main dining room. smoking
their cigars and cigarettes with aire a.
proprietorship, and waited for the das
parture of their train
Some of the connections vera lase
and the travelling men had to Uajt
over fort several hours. At the navS
meal they we're invited TO the main
dining room, but indignantly declined
Some went over TO Pineburst, wbara
they were unable to get anything n
eat, and the result was that practically
all of the white travellers went withopt
eating all day.
The negroes in Washjngton's parsy.
were principally from the north, ana
were returning home from the reeant
convention at Nashville, Tenn.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-08-26
WILLARD LEE WAS HAPPIEST
The Last Half Hour Preceding
Time Set for His Execution.

MillarG Lee, the condemned murder
err of Miss Lila Suttles, which occurr-
ed near Atlanta more than a ear ago,
says that the happiest hour he had
ever spent was the Que preceding the
time he was to have been placed on
the gallows to pay the penalty of his
crime. Continuing he said;
sd q been happy and away from all
care and pain long ago if il hadn't been
for these lawyers. When | was to be
hanged last year was happy in the
thought that it would soon be all over.
I'm tired of this and want to die. -
Lee IS under respite from the gov
ernor awaiting a decision of the su-
preme court as to his sanity
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-08-26

Atlantic railroad specific taxes and
taxes on professions, making the total
receipts to be counted on 50, 1863, 974 OF.
The appropriations which must be
met, it was found after revision of
the figures, are 1926, 366. This shows
a deficit of $50, 1872, but it was estimated
that the increased receipts from spec.
ciaI taxes over last year will fully make
ND this amount. They will more than
do it if they show anything like COM
parative increase with that of real aud
personal property.
On this basis it will be seen that the
state will come out even. There is no
treasury balance that could be depend
ed on, and all of the public property
fund has been spent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-08-26
TAX RATE s. ON $1,000.
REDUCTION OF 80 CENTS OVER RATE
OF LAST YEAR MADE.
franchise Tax Assessments Included in
Basis of Levy, Total Property Val
uations in State $5I8, AIS 92.

uatl0nS IN State sob, 4l5, 59Z.
The state tax rate this year will be
five mills, or s. on 81 900 of property
returned.
This is 30 cents per 81 900 less thar
The tax rate last year, which was 5:3c
mills.
tits also less by 81 cents on 1000
tlemaximum rate fixed by the legis
iature in the general tax act, that
maximum being s mills for general
purposes and 81 mills for the sinking
fund.
BY careful study of the situation
me state tax commission, composed of
uOVernOr Terrell and ptrOller
GENERAL Wright, found they could fix
lower rate than has prevailed for
several years past, and a rate, too, not
IL excess OF the limit which will soon
%nSed by constitutional amendment
ss'Oon as the people have voted on the
MEASURE passed at the recent session
Tue Legislature. That amendment
p'OpoSeS to limit the taxing power to
I'VE mills for all purposes.
an interesting feature developed in
"'''lng at the tax rate is that the
sO'eFhor and the comptroller general
4''e put it squarely ''up to" the arbi-
'a'0rS to make good the franchise as
s''uents put upon the big corpora
'o m oy Comptroller General Wright.
'ue Total franchise assessments
aO7 oy the comptroller general
'I00nt to S28, 100000, including also
.,ue slight increase in assessments on
= +'''caI properties of certain corpor-
NUS The Increase in the tax digests
wi last year is $22, 604, 946, making a
h .Vl increase in property valuations
SllO4,946
1'S Increase, added to the total of
m0pefIy returns for last wear. gives
-, "Cal property valuations for the
r NC 'nls year at s5lS, 4l5, 592.
'' TOTAL valuation at tax rate of
A., aa Ills will yield to the state 50, 542,-
IA. Nv from which must be deducted 3
~, ' ,a Tor expenses of collecting, or
n .,'0''o9, leaving net 81, Ala, 974.07
~, 'u'S Is added s455,OOO which the
!. receives from other sources, such
~'' Tue rental OF the Western and
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-08-26
BIRTH AND DEATH RATE OF NEGROES'
Statistics Show the Negro Population Decreasing
Excess Deaths Over Births.
N~N~N~~%%%%~%%%%~~%N~~~~~A

Is the negro population of the cities
of the United States, except as it is re-
cruited by new arrivals from the coun.
try, decreasing as a result of an excess
of deaths over births?
This is question that has been an
swered atirmatively in some of the re-
cent discussions of the race problem,
but in no case has statistics been
given tending to support the answer.
All that has been written on the SUBJ
ject seems to have been based on as
sumption and personal observation,
which would necessarily be narrow in
scope.
There is no part of the country in
which tie registration of vital statis-
tics is so nearly perfect as in New Eng
land. For this reason the figures for
Boston are particularly interesting.
They show that during the census
year there were 1891 births and H.
21I deaths among the white population,
making an excess of 2,7l4 births
Among the negro population of Boston
the same year the births numbered
240 and the deaths 327, making the ex.
cess of deaths 81. In Greater New
York there were SO, 1874 births and 10,
229 deaths among the white popula.
ton, making the excess of births ID,
935. Among the negro population
there were 1870 deaths and 1,430
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-08-26

births. making the excess of deaths
$40 In Buffalo there were 1927 births
and 5,157 deaths among the white peo-
pie, making the excess of births 4,070.
Among the negroes there we're 20
births and 50 deaths, making the ex-
cess of deaths q. In Chicago there
were 3,0g8 births and %, 533 deaths in
the white population, making the ex-
cess of births 1866. Among the col
ored population there were 389 births
and 679 deaths, making the excess of
deaths 300. In ST. Louis there were
1880 births and 10, 32O deaths among
the white population, making the ex-
cess of births 2,640. Among the color
ed population there were 594 births
and l, l55 deaths, making the excess of
deaths SOL. la New Orleans there
were. 1924 births among the white
population and 4,977 deaths, making
the excess of births 257. Among the
coloreG population there we're 1,735
births aud 1910 deaths, making the
excess of deaths 1915.
About the same proportions were
shown IN other cities. but the above
examples are sufficient 10 demons trate
that If the births among the popula
tion of the registration cities are re-
corded with any degree of accuracy
the negro population of those cities is
not increasing through the birth rate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-08-26

II constipated or bilious call for
Ramon's Pills, and be certain that the
clerk gives you the genuine Ramon g.
Complete treatment-25 doses 25
cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30
Let Us Have Peace.

In 1868 Gen. Grant wrote his ia
nous letter, Let us have peace" This
letter was addressed to Gen. Joseph
II. Hawley, who was president of the
republican convention that nominal
ted Grant. Hawley, now and for
many years United States senator
from Connecticut, was then editor of
the Hartford Comm Courant, and he
mislaid the letter. For long time it
was thought TO he lost. The other
day the Courant building had a gen
eral house-cleaning. Workmen were
taking the waste paper from the cellar
of the printing Office to the ragman,
when out dropped a bulky envelope.
1t was taken up by the man who was
in charge and delivered to the office.
In it was the long-lost letter.
1t reads as follows: Peace and
universal prosperity, its consequences.
with economy of administration, will
Tighten the burden of taxation, while
it constantly reduces the national
debt. Let US have peace
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30

\ Mrs. Overton. who lives near
Gleason. Tenn, went to town the 9TH
er day for the purpose of seeing a
passenger train. She is 80 years old
and has lived within Is miles of the
railway nearly all her life, but had
never seen the track up to that time.
On hearing the train approaching she
became very much excited, and re-
fused to go near the track, thinking
the train a great monster capable of
doing her harm if it desired. She re-
turned home greatly worked up over
her adventure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30
AssIRnee's Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the I'M
dersigned has been appointed assignee
of the Rock Island Furniture COM
pany, a corporation of the state of
Illinois doing business at the city of
Rock Island, in Rock Island county,
Illinois, and all persons holding any
claim or claims against said company
are hereby notified to present the
same to the undersigned under oath
or affirmation within three months
from this date whether said claims
are due or not. All persons indebted
to said company are requested to
make prompt payment to the under
signed.
Dated Rock Island, ILL.,, Oct. 81, A.
D., 1903.
CENTRAL TRUST & SAVINGS BANK,
Assignee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30
NEWS IN OUTLINE

Citizens of Cleveland. o., have for
malIy presented a handsome bronze
ships bell to the new cruiser Cleve-
Iand.
John Mitchell, of the U. NJ. w, de
MES that he is going to Colorado in the
near future.
Fire at New Orleans did S225.0OO
damage to the plant of the National
Biscuit company.
1t is said that Lord Roberts is about
TO resign as commander-in-chief of the
British army.
Coils F. Huntington. who died on
Aug. IL. 1900. left a net real and per-
sonal estate in New York valued at
S2S.3O1, 100. His widow gets over 49,
100000.
John Fogle. a negro. was lynched
near St George. :. c., for rape on Miss
Ross. Il young white woman.
Laredo. Tex. has now been free
from any case of yellow fever for four
days.
Four negro children were burned to
death about eight miles west of Jack
son. Miss. The parents had gone to a
festival and locked them in.
Safe blowers raided the department
store of FOye & Eckstein at Savannah.
Ga. dynami the safe and secured
between $1.7OO and $500.
1t is estimated that 102 persons lost
raeir lives in the recent storms on the
north sea.
The First Methodist church at Be
lott. Wis. has just celebrated it's sixty
first anniversary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30

The --latest Developments in the
postal scandals, as revealed through
the reports of the official investiga-
tions and made public in the columns
of The Argus today. should be read
with interest. especially when it is
taken into consideration that the
series Of systematic swindles and
frauds upon the government thus re-
vealed are what the postoffice depart
ment has endeavored so strenuously
to suppress. The question now is,
will the disclosures of the result of
lcng and uninterrupted tenure of Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30

A certain minister in town near
Danville, according to the CONNER
cial of that city. surprised his audi
ence last Sunday morning by reading
the following announcement from the
pulpit: The regular session of the
Donkey club will be held as usual af-
ter the services. Members will line
up just outside the door and make
remarks and stare at the ladies as
they pass out. as is their custom"
But they did not-not that Sunday
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30

\ man in Louisville had a barrel of
snails sent him from Italy recently,
but the custom house officials held
them up because they could find no
duty to levy on snails. and it did not
seem right to let them in for moth
ing. 1t looked as if the snails would
pass the rest of their lives in the Gus
tom house, but the man finally offer
ed to pay duty on them as wild ami
mails and the officials let him have
them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30

The best way that Chicago can
check crime and remove the infu-
ences that breed crime is TO close the
pending incident by rushing the car
bandits to the gallows, and thus give
the yellow sheets of that city some
thing else TO think about.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30

In the space that is allotted to his
use in the columns of the Chicago
Tribune. John II. McCutcheon has
been making heroic effort By means
of picture lessons to overcome or at
least to neutralize the effect of the
Iurid accounts of the car bandits ca
reers as storied in the other parts of
the paper. The making of heroes out
of criminals is a practice that no re-
spectacle paper should be guilty of.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30

In spite of all efforts to stop the
slaughter of birds for millinery pur-
poses, the havoc made is still enor-
NOUS. In London there is every au-
tumn an auction sale lasting several
weeks. at which hundreds of thous-
ands of birds. mostly from the Ma
layan archipelago, Australia and
South America, are sold. \ recent
collection included eight varieties of
birds of paradise.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30

The Chicago murder story impresses
the reader that laws are needed max
ing it more difficult to obtain murder
Gus weapons. Firearms are freely
used throughout the country. The
carrying of concealed weapons should
be made a more serious Offense than
it is, and the sale of murderous wea-
pons should be kept within closer
bounds than at present.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30
stocIrboIda,., nrast,ne

Rock Island, ILL.,, Oct. 81, 1903.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Peoples Power COM
pany will be held at the Rock Island
office of the company, corner Seven
teenth street and First avenue, Fri
day, Nov. 81, 1903, at $3.50 p. M, for
the election of directors, and any 9TH
er business that may come before the
meeting.
PEOPLES POWER COMPANY.
S. S. Davis, Secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30

TERMS-Daily, 10 cents per week. Weekly,
81 per year IN advance.
All communications of argumentative
character, political or religious, must have
real name attached for publication. No
such articles will be printed over fictitious
signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every town.
ship in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30
Monday, November 80. 1908.

Senator Clark says it's ridiculous
to suppose his daughter would fiirt
with an old man like Scion Nlasta.
And Chauncey Depew and Tom Platt
right in the same senate with him,
tOot
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30

a four-ton stone may some day be
erected over the grave of John d..
Rockefeller by the poor people to
whom his name is household word.
If so, they will put it there to keep
John ID. from getting out.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30

Bunau-Varilla is not the name OF a
new breakfast food. kind reader, but
that of the minister from the new
republic of. Panama which our ma
tional administration has recognized
for commercial purposes only.