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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21
Seems Certain From the Regis
tratiOn.
The Republican Vote Gains 707 Votes
Over Last Year-Read q
Winner.
BIG REGISTRATION YESTERDAY

Yesterdays supplementary registra-
ton gives nothing but encouragement
to Republicans. The total was 535
Democrats, 1876 Republicans and 81
miscellaneous, making n total Of 4l66
registered votes on both days. This
gives the Republicans 1868 registe red
votes. as against 962 last year, a gain
OF 707 over last year. Yet last year
the Democrats beat some Of the Repub-
lican candidates by less than 100 votes.
Thus with nearly 1000 Democratic
votes majority, the Republicans last
year cut down the Democratic msjori-
ty in the election to 100 in some in
stances The Democrats now have
only 652 majority this year and this
will be easily cut down IN the election.
II is very clear that the Republican
ticket has . walk-over. Every year
the Republicans cut down the Demo
cratic majority several hundred. This
year they will do il worse than ever,
because the vote registered shows the
interest taken in the election, and in
addition because there il an independ-
ent ticket in the field which will take
several hundred votes from the Demo.
cratic ticket. II will not take more
than 100, at the most, from the Re-
publican ticket. hence il cannot hurt
the Republican ticket, but will help
it.
Many Republicans have registered
as Democrats or independents, and
when the whole thing is footed mp it
rs plain that the Republicans will win
in a walk. They are gaining ground
every day.
The following are the figures for the
two days registration this year:
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21
Whether or Not There is to be
War.
> Prominent indianapolis Man Sui
oides--A Pittsburg Bank
Closed.
OTHER NEWS BY WIRE
1T Is UP TO JAPAN.

London, Oct. Alt is now up to
japan to say what she intends to do in
the far East, and upon the decision Of
the government of the Mikado depends
whether or not there will be war in
Russia. The Russian government has
taken the stand that she will maintain
her position in the far east by force of
arms IL necessary, and shows by the
reinforcements to both her military
and naval forces that she means 1t.
Opinion among army and navy PEG
pie here is divided as TO whether or
not Japan will take up the gage of bat.
tie. II is generally agreed that il ia
pan ever intends to fight Russia, and
put TO the test the question whether
she is to be a world power and domi-
nate on the Asiato mainland opposite
her shores, she will find no better
time. The fact that a fighting admir-.
nj has been put in command OF the ia.
panese feet ia taken TO be an indica-
ton that the mikado has determined
to fight.
Diplomats here are plainly puzzled
at the situation. II was confidently
believed two weeks ago thst a few
days would tell the tale, whether it
would be peace or war, but the ten
sion seems to be as great as ever. and
there Is much doubt as to what the
ond will be.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21
PITY THE BLIND.

Of being discolored from having been
exposed, whether that o. white man
or negro cannot be determined.
The discovery was reported at
woodville and at other towns in that
vicinity and the natural superstition is
that some one had been run over by a
train and had crswled of in the woods
and bled to death. Following this
theory the residents formed a party
and began to search for the mans
body but were not successful in their
efforts.
This afternoon a telephone message
stated that nothing had yet been
learned of the owner of the severed
member. 1t turned out to be the foot
of a white man, and seemed to have
been cut Off no later than day before
yesterday. No one in that section, so
far as is known, is minus foot.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21
is STILL In DOUBT
Court Gives $4,000 For Reg
Duvall's Death.
1t Fails to Settle the Question of Adj
ministrator of the
Estate.
A COUNTER DECISION
COUNTER DECISION

The question of title to administers
ton on the estate Of Reginald Duvall
of Paducah, the engineer killed in .
Southern wreck in Indiana in August,
1902, remains unsettled and the right
to receive 80, 500 awarded as damages
for his death is also undetermined &C.
cording to yesterdays Louisville
Times. The Crawford circuit court
ut English, Ind, awarded verdict of
80, 500 to the administrator of Regi-
nald Duvall's estate, but left unsettled
the question of who was the admins
traitor, whether Flora ID. Duvall,
claiming as widow, or Mrs. M. e. Du-
vail, mother of the dead man.
At the same time that the above
verdict was rendered at English the
Dubois circuit court at Jasper, Ind.
held that Flora d. Duvall was the
widow and established her right to ad-
ministrstion ON the estate.
In the federal court at Louisville
Mrs. M. K. Duvall of Paducah, filed q
suit some time ago asking an injunc-
tion to prevent Flora d. Duvall from
acting as administrative and at the
same time asking damages for the
death of her son. The deposition of
Flora ID. Duvall, taken in connection
with this case, was used in the suit at
Jasper, where she was held to be the
widow.
Mrs. Flora Duvall testified in the
case at English that she was married
to Reginald Duvall August 10, 1909.
in the Office of Turner Wilson, Lou
isville lawyer, by a minister named
Hurri gan.
Turner Wilson denied her story, but
admitted that he had given Flora Du-
vail a note in which he vouched for
her marriage to Reginald Duvall,
lust to satisfy the mother for .
time.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21
Mr.. Baxter MOckbee Comes Near
Getting Chicken Thief.
He Fired at Him After the Marauder
Had Knocked Plank
Of.
BUT THE THIEF ESCAPED

Mr.. Baxter Mockbee, of Bronson av-
enue, near 10th street, gave q chicken
thief bad fright last night, and will
probably experience little trouble from
such customers again.
Mr.. Mockbee is timer employed
by the Rhodes Burford company, and
had worked last night rather late. On
reaching home he sat down to read his
paper before retiring and heard some
one in the back yard. He remarked to
his wife that he believed q chicken
thief was trying to get ct his fowls
and securing his pistol went out to in
vestigate. He saw man trying to
get in and waited for him to effect en-
trance. The thief knocked board of
the fence and entered the yard but no
sooner had he set foot inside than Mr..
Mockbee pulled down on him with
his gun. The bullet missed the thief
but struck the board not half foot
away, and the intruder made hasty
exit Mr. Mockbee followed and saw
the man running down the alley and
took one more shot at him and it was
here that the thief took wings and
few"
TIE residents all over the city nave
been troubled Of late by chicken
thieves and this will probably act as
damper on them for time. 1t is be-
lieved this was the same man who has
been stealing chickens all over town.
Owing to the darkness Mr.. Mockbee
could not tell whether the man was
black or white.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21

Total registration 4l66
Last year the total ON the last regis
tration day was 1856 Republicans and
20 Democrats. The total registration
last year was 30a6. 1t is il41 votes
more this year than last. showing that
there il something doing.
Last year, with the Democrats about
1000 in the majority, Mr.. ]. A. James,
now candidate for city jailer, was de-
feated by Mr.. 7. J. Evitts, the pres
emit Democratic nominee, by only SO
votes. Others were defeated by the
Democrats by less than 500 votes,
showing that the Republicans cut
down the Democratic majority be-
tween 900 and 500 votes every year.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21
SHOOTING OVER A WOMAN.

New Orleans, Oct. 2l-Assistant
City Attorney Il. :. Whitaker, who
was captain of volunteers in the Span.
ish-American war. was shot twice by
BARLEY Brown, = newspaper reporter,
this afternoon. Neither wound is Sc
rious. Browns sister had been Whit
takers stenographer and It is under.
stood that she is the cause of the
shooting, though neither side will
talk
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21
Residents of the Lower Part of
the County Startled.
II is Supposed Someone Lost Foot
in q Railroad
Accident.
SEARCHING PARTY ORGANIZED.

The residents at La Center, a sta
tion on the Cairo extension of the I'LL
nois Central in Ballard county and
vicinity are mystified over che discov.
cry Of human foot on the railroad
right of way near La Centre.
The foot was picked up yesterday
afternoon by railroad laborers who
were working on the track, and
brought to La Centre. The foot was
cut of about the ankle, and ON account
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21
LOOKS LIKE SUICIDE.

Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 2l-Samuel
Z. Morss, editor Of Tho Sentinel, fell
from a window here At IL a. m. to-day
and was instantly killed. lie had been
ill long time and il looks like suicide
rs he had been in hard lines and fought
by his own party for some time. He
was consul general under Cleveland.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21

MR.. HARRISON TO BE AP-
POINTED-Mayor Yeiser win proba-
bly, appoint to fill out the unexpired
term Of Prosecuting Attorney Jesse
Gilbert, from now until January / AT
torney Tom Harrison, the Democratic
nominee for the office. No appoint
ment has yet been made. however.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21
EXAMINATION FOX OBSERVER.
TWO TAKING CIVIL SERVICE
TEST AT GOVERNMENT
BUILDING.

A civil service examination 10 in
progress at the government building
today, for weather observer Two
are taking the examinations: william
A. Edwards, of Hardin, and s. ID.
Halliday, OF Fulton. 1t is being CON-
Quoted by the Civil Service CLERK fred
Ashton.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21
WAITING FOR IRoN-Work 1

WAITING FOR IRON-Work is
still delayed at the government build
ing addition by the failure of the ex.
peoted iron work to arrive. The work
men have been awaiting it for six
weeks now, and 1t has not yet come.
The burning of the foundry at Owens.
boro that had the contract for furnish
ing the material is mostly to blame for
It.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21

Mrs. Mildred Davis, Mrs. A. r.
Meyers and Mrs. Frank Parham went
to Cairo today to attend the meeting
of the Illinois Federation of Women's
Clubs, now in session there.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21

Bob franklin, the attorney who as
sisted in the mistrials of the alleged
Goebel murderers and whose last stunt
was having q picture taken OF . kuife
Caleb Powers gave to the jailer, will
speak here tonight.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21
A BANK CLOSED.

Pittsburg, Pa, Oct. 2i--The FEEDER
al national bank was closed this morn
ing by the comptroller. IL was sup
posed to be one Of the strongest in the
city. No statement has been issued
yet.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21
BECKHAM SATURDAY
HE AND CONGRESSMAN JAMES
TO SPEAK HERE.

Gov. Beckham and Congressman
Ollie James will arrive in Paducah and
speak next Saturday night at the
county court house.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21
PROMINENT KENTUCKIAN DEAD

williamstown, Ky, Oct. 2i-Dr. r.
II. O'Hara. one OF the wesithiest men
in Grant county and bank president,
etc died this morning. Was Q cousin
of Theodore O'Hara.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21

DR.. and Mrs. George Rswleigh and
Mr.. John Dean left yesterday for .
weeks outing at Turner lake.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21

Attorney W. d. Greer has gone to
st. Louis on business. x.~s
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-21

Mr.. l.. p. James has returned from
Louisville.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-02-06

cisco is responsible for wholesale
thefts. This news leaked out through
General Manager Frank S. Baltic OF
the Columbia mine. who says speci-
mems worth $4,000 have been stolen
from his property and that for every
pound stolen from the Columbia there
have been 100 pounds stolen from the
North Pole.
For four months a representative Of
the Thiel Detective bureau of San
Francisco has been working on the
case. He traced the ore thefts from
the underground miners. through the
hands of fences and into the mint at
San Francisco. One member of the
organized gang has been arrested.
Warrants are out for five of the others
and officers are now on the trail.
The conspiracy embraces a number
of prominent Sumpter citizens. The
ramifications of the conspiracy include
regularly established offices in Stump
ter, Baker City, Portland and San
Francisco. When the loose ends of
the thread of crime are gathered in
during the next few days a story OF
gigantic thievery may be woven, sur.
passing in interest and magnitude any
thing of the kind ever related before
Peter Peterson, the man arrested
confessed and turned states evidence
A civil suit has been instituted against
Harry T. Hendry. a prominent poll
tician and mining man, to recover
| $1400 worth of stolen ore.
Emil Meter, superintendent of the
North Pole mine, has offered a reward
of $4,000 in gold for the apprehension
and conviction of those implicated II
the mammoth theft of ores from the
chain of Mother Lode mines. All mine
owners and managers from centra
Oregon to the Idaho state line are or
ganized to ferret out the robbers a
whatever cost.
1t is reported that a deal is pending
for the bonding of the Cougar mine
near Sumpter, owned principally by
Major Larkin and D. r. Evans, anC
valued at about 100000, to the Gel
ser-Hendry Investment company.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-02-06

Judge Knowles in the United States
court at Helena, Mont, decided that
the PierreManhes process of con-
verting commercial copper from cop
per matte, which was assigned to
Franklin Farrell and the late Achilles
f. MigeOn, was in all respects similar
to the bessemer process of converting
iron into steel, and that the Boston
& Montana company, against which
suit was brought to recover for in
fringement of the patent, had the right
to use the process. Farrell and Mig
con claimed royalty Of 81 ton on all
copper matte by process since it was
patented in 1892. All copper produced
in the United States is converted by
Manhes' patent and it is estimated the
amount involved if damages could be
collected for all copper SO reduced in
this country would be about $2,000,000
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-02-06

mo, Ore, was received by John r.
Cassin at Spokane recently, stating
that the main working tunnel had en-
tered the lead 40 feet, and the values
in the ore steadily increase as the
tunnel approaches the hanging wall
Values are said to range from $40
TO $40.
The Silver Butte mine. on Deep
creek, near Northport Wash, has re-
sumed shipments. It's ore is silver
lead and is handled by Montana smell.
ters. c. c. Knutson has resumed the
management of the property and start
ed tunnel which will tap the ore
body and do away with the expense for
hosting. The Velvet mine, on Sophie
mountain, is making heavy daily ship
ments to the NortLport smelter.
Three hundred employees Of the Gold
en- Reward smelter at Deadwood have
gone on strike because of one man be-
ing laid off. About 700 other men will
be thrown out of employment, the COM
pany having decided to close down two
of its large mines. The cyanide plant
and smelter have been treating about
1000 tons of ore daily
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-02-06
Montana Mines.

The boom is on in Emigrant Gulch
and all Chico is agog.
The Shafter people have a small
force of men at work developing the
mine.
Butte people have secured an op-
ton on the property of the Yellow
stone Mining company in Bear Gulch.
Bear Gulch district. near Jardine,
is on the boom. over 200 claims hav-
ing been located within the past two
weeks.
On the Easton and Pacific mines
nearly 40 men are at work. An upper
of men are either leasing or working
on prospects.
Mining districts that never have
had a boom are presumably a scarce
article, but nevertheless such a con-
dition exists in Granite county.
In mining way there are more men
employed in the quartz mines and
mills in the vicinity of Virginia City
than for number of years past.
Reports from the Cable mine are to
the effect that the shaft has now been
cleared of water and that actual work
of sinking, drifting and prosecuting
has begun.
A few weeks ago it was enormously
reported that the Hecla company was
going to close down their mines al
Hecla because the mines were about
worked out.
The Kenneth company brought down
from Summit recently over $4,000 in
gold bullion as a result of 20 days run
of the five-stamp mill running only
two-thirds of each day.
The trustees of the Montana schoo
of mines will ask the legislature fol
an appropriation of several thousand
dollars aside from the annual appro
priation for general maintenance anf
equipment.
The old Saltese district. about 15t
miles west of Missoula, just within
the Montana line. has taken on new
life since the discovery of good body
of ore by the Helena and Butte par
ties.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-02-06
Gun Shops Rushed.

Washington.-The three shift sys-
tenn by which work will be kept up
day and night, will be inaugurated in
the gun carriage shops at the Wash
ington navy. yard, Monday. There is
an imperative demand for completing
the orders now on hand and this step
is taken with a view TO expediting the
completion of work, the orders for
which were given over two years ago.
1t is the purpose of the navy Off
Gals to keep the other shops at the
yard in full operation during the entire
day and night as soon as sufficient
workmen can be obtained.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-02-06
BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Many mining men will attend the
convention to be held in Victoria on
February 25, when a British Columbia
Mining association will be formed.
Last week the Boundary mines ore
shipments were about 5000 tons more
than previous week, as the CRANKY
smelter has been able to run it's full
battery of four furnaces full time.
The Crofton smelter, on Vancouver
island, in which Messrs. Breen, Foth-
eringham and Bellinger of Spokane
are interested, is about to start up
again, after the clOse-down which was
necessitated by the law suits over the
Leonora.
A strike of very rich ore has been
made at the Silver King mine. on Toad
mountain by M. S. Davys, lessee. The
property is owned by the Hall Mines,
Ltd, but was shut down last summer
owing to the unsatisfactory results OF
development work.
The lie Roi No. company is pre-
pairing to inaugurate concentration
tests on a commercial basis. The mi
tial tests of milling processes on the
low grade ores Of the Josie and No. l
mines have been satisfactory and the
company will now conduct tests ex
pected to establish the milling ques
ton beyond the shadow of doubt.
1t is stated that George H. Collins
has the Charmer fractional mineral
claim, formerly known as the Golden
Fleece, under option for $4,000. The
claim is owned by White and Jensen
who have opened a good showing Of
copper. The claim is in the south
western part of Deadwood camp, in :
locality as yet little prospected below
the surface
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-02-06
MINING NOTES.

Work has been resumed on the
Apex, just north of Wallace, Idaho.
There is now some talk to the effect
that Cuba will again be a copper pro
Queer.
The metal market is in better con-
ditiOn than it has been before for
many months.
Four blast and two calcine furnaces
are now running at Northport and
handling close to 1000 tons per day.
Thomas Hammond, civil engineer,
denies the published report that he is
about to leave Republic for several
months.
w. G. Madison, president of the
Bodie company, has gone to the Bodie
mine, near Republic. There are IL men
working in the mine.
Mr.. William j. Reeves death at
Denver, Col, on the 5th ult., removes
from the commercial world one of it's
most prominent men.
Gravel yielding $1.25 to the pan has
been obtained from Amador creek,
near the Point claim on the celebrated
Lightning creek in Cariboo.
The starting of the smelter of the
Panhandle company near Standpoint.
Idaho, will mean great deal for the
mines about Pend dOreille.
St Louis brokers have formed an
exchange for the exclusive handling of
shares in mining and oil companies,
something that has long been a neces-
sity
The Chelan Transportation & Smelt-
ing company already has eight miles
of grade for it's new road from the
mine to Lake Chelan completed and
work will start on the proposed smell.
ter April 1st
A cavein occurred in one of the
slopes of the old Telegraph mine at
Bingham, Utah, partially wrecking the
residence of James Johnson, miner
and instantly killing two of Johnson's
sons. aged and years.
Gold has been found in the crop OF
wild goose and duck, in the craw oil
barnyard fowl, and tradition has il
that in former days deer were Otter
slain who had gold-plated teeth from
drinking of the waters of Cripple
creek.
The zala M. in Sheridan camp
Wash, is looking as fine as can be
and she is producing some very fine
looking ore. There is a good gans
of men on now and the mine is being
put in a very good shape to turn on
ore"
The Carter White Lead Works, o
| Omaha and Chicago, has had a rep
resentative in the lead fields of Idaht
bidding for the lead product. Thi
concern has made an offer of S4.12H
per hundred pounds as against $3.5
now being paid by the smelter trust.
Work has been temporarily suspend
ed on the Palmer Mountain tunnel
The cause of the let-up in undergroun,
development is to allow the tunnel t
be retimbered. For the past five year
the timber in parts Of the tunnel ha
been in place and is beginning to Civ
away.
Deputy United States Marshal o.
andrews, acting under instructions G
the United States federal court, ha
iold the smelter on the Weiser rive
lbout eight miles from Weiser, Idaho
he property of the Boston & SIEVE
Devils Copper company. 1t was sol
% the Stearns & Rogers Manufactul
ng company, of Denver. Colo.
A report from Superintendent j.
McGuigan of the Alamo mine at AL;
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-02-06
Hohson to Resiun.

shington.-Captain Richmond P.
Hobson of Merrimac fame has tender
ed his resignation as a naval construc-
tor in the navy. For some time Cap
tain Hobson has sought to be relieved
but the board before which he was ex-
amined pronounced him fit for duty.
and he was ordered to duty in charge
Of construction at the Bremerton
CWash.) naval station.
apparently has a special cause.