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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-18
Notice to Correspondence.

Notice to Correspondents.
No notice will be taken Of ANONYMOUS
communications.
In answering queries, our first atten-
ton will be given to the letters Of those
correspondents. who ask but one question
each.
We cannot publish copyright songs and
poems without permission Of the owner of
the copyright.
This column Is not an advertising me-.
dunn. No query will receive attention,
the answer to which will necessitate the
advertising Of any persons business or
wares. Nor will we permit any queries
/ to be published, which contain attacks,
either openly or disguised, upon any one.
Nor will any attention be given to long
strings" of questions. Every week NUM-
bers Of correspondents ignore this rule
Of ours, and afterwards wonder why their
queries are net answered.
Many queries are not answered because
similar ones have been recently answered.
We are overwhelmed with queries as to
the addresses Of millionaire philanthrop-s
lists, and cannot undertake to answer
them.
We cannot undertake to, ascertain the
value of old books, coins, Ior notes. For
that information write to some dealer in
them.
We cannot undertake to answer queries
by mail; we can only answer them
through this column
We are frequently called upon to re-
publish poems and songs, but we will
not undertakeito do SO, except where the
production called for has some historical
or peculiar literary merit, and is not OF
easy access to the average reader.
Address Query Editor, Dispatch Office.
Richmond, Va.
N. B.-We do not read unsigned letters.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-18

JOHNNIE BOOKER
Q, the sheep shell the corn,
BY the rattle of the horn.
And sent to the mill,
BY the old whippo'will;
The whippo'will rode
Till he couldn't sit still;
So do Mr. Booker, do.
o. reel, Johnnie Booker, reel,
Put on your long-tail blue
And court the widow. too
Q, the hen and chicken,
At the fodder stack So
The old hawk flew down on her back
And made her. bill go quack. quack, quaek
@, do, Mr.. Booker, do.
o, do, Mr.. Booker. lend your gun,
TO shoot that hawk before he run:
@, do, Mr. Booker, do.
20, reel, Johnnie Booker. reel.
Put on your long-tail blue
And court the widow too.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-18
SWANSON TO RUN

CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-18
nJohnnie Booker,, = fiThe

House.15
To the Editor Of the Dispatch:
Enclosed you will please find the words
to the song, CONNIE Booker a sung to
me by my nurse when was child.
will be very much obliged If you will
publish the words to the dear old song,
the Light House. think it is by
Thomas Moore, but 1t is not published in
his works I think the first verse is.
No longer the sigh Of the soldier boys
breast,
Is heard in the wildly breathing numbers.
The sea bird has flown to his wave-gir-
died nest.
And the fisherman sunk to his slumbers.
One moment looked from the LIS
slope
All hushed was the pillows commo-
ton
And thought that the light house looked
lonely as hope
That star on life's troublous ocean.
By granting this request, you will
oblige one who has read your valuable
paper for years.
Respectfully,
MRS. D. H. H. {
Blackstone, Va. !.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-18
Centreville, Va.
% the Editor of the Dispatch:

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
AS a subscriber, I write to request that
you publish in your paper the poem
about Barbara Freitchie,'' and there
are others that would like to see it In
print. z. w. X.
Curdsville P O.. buckingham county.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-18

ffGirI I Loved In Tenncssee.D
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
saw in your query column request
for copy Of the song. "The Girl
Loved in Sunny Tennessee
! enclose it.
Your constant reader,
ELIZABETH BRYANT CRITTENDEN.
Unionville. Va.
THE GIRL I LOVED IN SUNNY
TENNESSEE''
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-18

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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-18

On morning bright and clear.
To my old home ] drew near,
Just village down in Tennessee;
/ was speeding on a train
That would bring me back again
To my sweetheart who was waiting
there for me.
It was but a few short years
Since I kissed away her tears,
AS I left her at my dear old mothers
side;
And each day we've been apart
She's grown dearer to my heart
Than the night I asked of her to be
my bride.
CHORUS.
We could hear the darlSies singing
AS she said farewell to me-
Far across the field of cotton
My old homestead could see; ~.
When the moon rose in it's glory,
Then I told LIES sweetest story
10 the girl I loved in sunny Tennessee.
AS the train drew up at last,
Old familiar scenes I passed,
And kissed my mother It, the station
door;
But as old friends gathered'round
Tears on every face I found,
And I missed the one that I'd been
longing for.
AS I whispered Mother. dear,
Where is Mary? She's not here!"
All the world seemed lost, and eadness
came to me;
For she pointed to q spot,
In a church-yard's little lot,
Where my sweetheart sleeps In sunny
Tennessee.
Il
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-18

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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-18
Problem in Algebra.

10 the Editor OF the Dispatch:
VII you please give me- an airehra,c
solution Of this simple ouadratic: : =
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-18

And each day we've been apart
She's grown dearer to my heart
Than the night I asked of her to be
my bride.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-02-06

Grant Cordrey. Secretary Of Rent
ers' Loan and Trust company, do SOL
emily swear that every statement,
matter and thing contained in the
foregoing report is true to the best Of
their knowledge and belief
G. M. PERINE,
GRANT CORDREY.
Subscribed and sworn to
before me, this Goth day
tSeall of January, 1903.
JOHN J. QUINN.
Notary Public in and for the County
and City Of San Francisco. State
cf California.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-02-06
A BOLD HOLD-UP.
Reno Again the Scene Of olarina
Crime.


Shortly before midnight last night
one Of the most deliberate and well
laid plans in the hold-up business took
place at the Wieland saloon corner Of
Sierra and Plaza streets.
ice Cara proprietor of the establish
ment, was engaged in playing pool,
ard there we're some fifteen visitors
watching the game. A. Meyer, VINO
has charge of the day shift. was be
hind the bar, attending to the wants
of those present when the uoor on the
south side CT the establishment was
opened and two masked men entered.
Meyers was ordered TO throw up his
bonds, and the same order was made
to the onloCkers ct the game. The
man addressing Meyers covered him
with a gun. while his partner per-
formed the same service on those
seated in the saloon.
TO the south side of the room and did
as requested, whereupon the man
went behind the bar and helped him
self to the contents of the cash regis
ter. He secured $57 SIS.
AS the ROBBERS were retiring from
tde place Albert Waugh came in the
kind he was struck with the but of a
pistol by one of the ROBBERS and sus-
tanned a severe scalp wound
Upon leaving the place one of the
men ran down Sierra street and his
accomp!ice went up Third to West
street, and then continued on south
The officers were notified Of the
robbery. and started TO work at once.
! In a short tine they lad arrested a
man who ceres pended to the descrip-
ton given by Meyers. and brought
! him to the saloon for Identification.
! Both the men were masked, one CT
! them wearing red bandana hand
kerchief. over his face. and the other
one Meyers said was q blue polka
dot
After the men had relieved the cash
register Of its burden they took a
valuable diamond pin fruIn Mr.. Mey-
ers, and then left as stated above.
Mr. Barra was seen by the Journal
reporter shortly after the hold-up oc
cured When asked if the men who
had done the work had frequented his
place he replied that they looked like
people he had seen, but owing to the
hurried way the did their business hi
would not care to state his suspicious
The man arrested and brought to thu
saloon was a total stranger to Mr.
Barra, but the people who had been il
the saloon at the time the work wa
consumated, declared that he was on
of the men. and the officers took hin
over the rinver He will be hell
pending further investigations.-Joul
nal.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-02-06
$56,34S So $56,34S sc
ANNA. STATEMENT.

s65S1 SO $65S1 80
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-02-06

Miss Mabel Bouton. the Reno act
ress, who was removed to a hospital
in New York. died there Tuesday.
The deceased was a resident Of Reno
and made quite a reputation as an
actress
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-02-06
SAFE DEPOSIT Department,

cvkK ONE HUNDRED DEPOSIT have beenp .s
IN the TANK They design hafnch
steel They BURGLAR . perfectly
receptacle valuable
terms prices ranging
furnished application.
eposs received
ana Europe Coseons received
oENEkAh BANK1N9a BUelNDes TRANSACTED
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-02-06
ANNUAL STATEMENT.

Annual statement Of the Excelsior
Mining Company, of Utah doing bu-
siness in the State of Nevada, for the
year ending Dec 81, 1902:
Receipts ........... .$56,34S Sc
Disbursements ..$54,562 25
Balance net gain .17S6 81
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-02-06
The State Bank s Trust Co
Carson City. Nevada
CAPITAL FULLY PAID u
DIRECTORS.

RICKEY, c. T. BENDER G. W LA" GEO. h.. dEY Rs.
T. B. YER1NGTON, p. II. PETE % LIvINGS ON.
+. GOLDEN, w. BRAUGHER.
T. B. RICKEY, n MEYERS.
T. l. BENDER End VICE PRESIDENT. g. RICHARD, CAsn11R
J. TDAVIS, ASSISTANT
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-02-06
AFTER TAX DoDGEccc.

Inc art VI LAX CCuSIuS III TStW VI
is just now having set back. Some
prominent capitalists have been
caught hiring dummies to swear of
their personal property taxes. The
dummy, who hasn't a bean. personal
es the capitalist with a good suit Of
clothes and swears that he is not
worth over $1,000 He gets IS for
this and the capitalist saves possibly
thousand CT E-ore en- taxes.
The District Attorney has arrested
several prominent men and will send
them along the line of legal punish
ment to the full limit.
The remedy that he suggests is to
publish list annually OF the names
of all tax payers with the amount Of
taxes they pay.
This is copying after the Nevada
method, which was adopted in this
State about ten years ago. 1t gives
publicity to the tax roll. and each
man can tell how much taxes his nei-
ghbor is paying
1t has worked 50 well chat all at
tempts on the part of the tax dodge>
to repeal it. has failed.
la!iail!;i.,,''
It is Governor John Sparks IN New
ada now. We suspect every thorough
bred Hereford on the big -spch had
his tail carded am. his white face
washed when he heard the news OF
the inauguration. = good man is
Governor Sparks and if he does not
make a good Governor it will be the
first thing he ever tried that he did
not do well-Goodwins Weekly.
l;.,iIIIIlItIiIhn
An increase nf three and half bill
lions in valuati.n is reported from
New York City un'' - the new system
Of taxation. q ti.:s o,ia and halt
millions beiny 81 Fly and two mil
lions on pe-e.ii;sl prop Ity. Thai new
system must he daisy. it evidently
gets at personal property, which as
sessment systems rsua'ly fail to 10
1t would be ,,ool thing for present
LEGISLATURE to look into tina. New
York ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I|I''hlIIliliHil
Chamberlain, the Englishman, WIT
started the Boer war because he hell
stock in an ordinance foundry, wen
to the pow-wow in India with hi:
wife on a war vessel. The trip cos
the tax payers two and a half mil
lion Yet we think we have som.
good all round grafters in this coun
try.
lhillIIIIIIIIlll
Western railroads are planning t
raise freight rates so that their reve
nues will be increased $1O0,0O0,O 90
this year. That should greatly pleas
the farmers who drove several mile
out Of their way last fall, neglectin
important work. to vote for prospe
ity.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-02-06
ANNUAL STATEMENT

CT the Renters Loan and Trust
Company, San Francisco, at the
ct business, December 81,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-13
SOLDIERS ATTEMPT
 TO LYNCH NEGROES
ENTIRE POLICE FORCE OF LEA VENWoRTH IS KEPT BUSY oUELLINe FIGHTS = TROUBLE CAUSED BY SHOOTING.

Leavenworth Kan... July 12,-United States soldiers from Fort Leavenworth attempted to lynch Everidge Williams and Walter Brown, negroes. tonight, and for over an hour the entire police depart ment was kept busy quelling the trou- ble.
 Williams and Brown had engaged in a row with soldiers and one of them fired number of shots at a soldier The soldiers then congregated in great num- bers and It was decided to lynch the negroes if they could be found. Twen- ty-iive soldiers and a number of citizens went to the homes of Williams and Brown near the old fair grounds and surrounded both houses. Ropes had been secured and everything was III readiness for 8 lynching Policemen with. rifles and revolvets appeared on Che scene and by careful maneuvering succeeded in getting Brown and Wiiiiaf1s away to the police station.
 A number of soldiers with revolvers were arrested, but later released.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-13
ITALIAN STRIKE
 BREAKER IS SHOT
WAS FIRED UPON FROM FOUNDRY OF L. 0. SEAMS 6 co. AT sYRA- cUsE, N. Y.-REsULT OF LABOR TROUBLES.

Syracuse, N. Y, July 12.-An Italian strike breaker, at the foundry of L. c. stearns & Co, this afternoon fired upon end wounded George More, union mold CT employed elsewhere, but in sympathy with the strikers Three men are under arrest for compleIty in the shooting Thomas Rossa, Antony Deter or Antonio Dltor. and Mich Perru1ie or Nieoio fla zullo.
 Moore was fired upon in ths street from the factory and evidence oDtained by the police points to Rossa as the man who fired the shots. He himself, when arrest ed accused Perrulle and a rumhcr ot Italians who were in the place at the time that Detter, a sub-boss, had given seil- era orders to shoot on occasion at union piekets who walked the streets outside the factory. The shots were fired from be- hind high picket fence which shuts off the factory yard from the street.
 No immediate cause for the trouble was apparent but during the long strike there have been threats that blood will be shed before the termination. Other people near Moore narrowly escaped be- ing shot.
 When arrested Rossa was armed with dirk Four Winchester rifles were taken from the factory by the police. The rifles are claimed to have been procured by the head of the company, and the Italian boss is said to have told his men that they would be protected if tlfey used the firearms. Stearns would neither con firm or deny the statements that he had put weapons tn the hands of his men, Moore's injuries are not fatal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-13
HOTEL ARRIVALS

At the F1orence-J. L. Putnam. Kansas Cityj J. c. Lynch, Boston, J. N. Rags dale. Pulaski; R. Chestnut Tennesseei T. w. Tibb; R. l.. Shammerll FefNQsyl- vania; W. D. Rouex. Tuscumhia; ". Johnson, Atfauta; Callie ReDerson, Cor dova; ID. M. CowAr, J1Sc.Isas City; T. E. Miller, St. Louis; N. McJntire, Memphis; J. Derham, Memphis; E. L. Smith, New Orleans; O. s. Keitlan, Knox villei Frank A. Eubanks, North Carolina; ". J. Jennings, St Louis; c. L. Amberg
 ". T. Richardson, Louisville; R. D. Wall, Memphisi 0. s. McNeeiy, c, l.. Farnham, George A. Buddy. Chicago; J. J. Chal- Ill, Florence; W. w. Smith, Alabama ; Jack Davis, Montgomery; S. R. Ferguson, Nashville; c. w. Kling, Mobile; E. c. Eaton, Alabama; 0. T. Courson. New Castlej F. Lester, O. O. Brown, Atlanta;
 D. O. Parsons, Be5semer; Joe Bran nen, Johns; T. N. Wilson, Nashville; J B. Van De Croft. Cincinnati; E M. Oneal Va; H. c. Compton, Bessemer; IL. r5eaty, Ala; c. Cherry Ala; J. Agee, A 3.; W. Yarbrough, Ala; A Haas Ala (. Redmond, Ala; W. Mud, Ala; D s. Walraven, Atlanta; R. H. Cobbs, Mo bile; R. s. Bass, Leeds; B. w. McDuffie and wife Ala; A. H. Feagin. Murray; L. Kirkpatrick. Ala; J. Wood, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-13

The man on the stage who does the trick of escaping from firmly tied ropes, submits to the bonds with smile. He knows he can get out of the ropes that are being knotted. Put tue same man in the woods and let Indian captors bind him to a tree for torture and he would struggle to the last against the bonds.
 When the stomach is diseased there are bonds being woven every hour about the organs dependent on the stomach- heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, etc. The folly of mankind is to passively submit to the fastening of these bonds with no effort to escape until the pain they cause aroases fear.
 Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion aud nutrition. It cures diseases of heart, liver, lungs kid neys and other organs, when these dis eases, as is often the case, have their origin in the diseased stomach. rFor long tifua was suffering and was hardly able to get about,n writes Mi. Andrew J. JeunfnSs of Thomas, Tucker O., ". Va, Box Io4 uWas botheted with kidney trouble and my whole system was out of orderj md DO appetite. 4 friend of mine told me to tTy Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, 4a sc six six bottles , < of Golden Medical blscovcry 'and some of the Pleasant Pellets and feel Ike 2 new person."
 Dr. Pierce,s Pleasant Pellets cleanse the clogged system from impurities. 4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-13
MORE TROUBLE IS
 FEARED IN CHICAGO
CLASH BETWEEN FREIGHT HAND LERS' ORGANIZATION AND RAIL ROADS IS EMINENT-PREPARA- TONS ARE MADE.

Chicago, July 12.-The indications to- night are that tomorrow will bring the commencement of another conflict be- tween freight handlers organizations 1n Chicago and the railroads such as was experienced here last summer, when the union was defeated and all but disrupted. The difficulty this time is not over a question of wages, but Is brought about by a controversy between the teamsters' union and the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply company, where the employees went on strike two months ago because the firm refused to discharge ten non-un- ion employees.
 The Kellogg plant has been tied up ever since the strike because of the re- or take away goods from the factory while the strike was on. Two days ago efforts were made to perform the work with non-union teamsters under police protection. Riots between policement and the strikers followed the attempt but the company succeeded in delivering the goods to the railroads. when the goods were unlOaded onto the raliroad plat- forms, however, the freight handlers, acting under the orders of their presi- dent, refused to handle the freight and were discharged.
 compact was then formed betwen the
 nion teamsters and other unions in volved in the Kellogg strike and Presi- dent Curran of the Freight Handlers union, whereby the latter agreed to call O oaneral atrile of tha freight handlers employed on the railroads in Chicago If any further attempts were made to de- liver goods to the railroads with non union teamsters
 Preparations were made by the Kel- logg Company today to deliver to the railroads tomorrow morning with non union teamsters The railroad managers stated tonight that they were prepared for strike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-13
CADSDEN.
Sudden Death at Ball Piay-Buildine
 Boom is Growing.

Gadsden. Juy 12.-(Specia. )-News has Ball Play on July 4. Mrs. Green Hum phries was taken suI .enly i'll oh Friday night with congestion of the stomach and in spite of all that could be done she died early next morning in great agony. She was 65 years old and leaves a husband to mourn her death. She was a highly re- spected Christian lady.
 A concern which manufactures gins and ginning machinery is looking for q ,oen- tion where stock will be alLan by loeal parties and It is said that the parties pi e. fer Gadsden. The matter Is in the hsrds of the Commercial club and 1t is very likely that the plant VIII be secured.
 Loui Hart has taken charge of Belle vue hotel on the mountain overlooking Gadsden and he VIII give fife opening bah on next Friday night. July r, to which the public Is invited. The hotel is rapid ly filling up with guests.
 The s-months-old son of Ifud Acxsr and wife died In this city yeststday after a short illness and was buried 1t Fair view.
 D. L. Garner received message yes terday announcing the death of his brother, J. $. Garner. in Atlanta, Ga. MT. Garner knew that his brother was afflicted with a chronic trouble, but was not aware that he was in dangerous condition.
 John R. Proctor has commenced the work of repairing his brick store on Broad street. He will add a second story and the building will be a two story, 25x60. and has already been rented. There is not a vacant store in the city, and requests are made every day for them. Dwelling houses for rent are a thing of the past and many houses con Houses cannot be erected fast ene .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-13
BRADLEY BACK IN PRISON.
Made Ills Escape In 1sse2 from Char,
 leston Penitentiary.

Boston, Mass. July 12.-James M. Bradley Is back again in the state prison at Charlestown. out of which place he walked on Thanksgiving day, 1892. Brad ley arrived today from the Texas state prison where on July 1, he finished a sentence. He is wanted here to complete a five-year's sentence.
 Bradley was a member of the famous 'sewer gang" that escaped from the prison in July, 1892. He was captured in New York November and returned to prison. On November 24 1892, Thanks giving day, while the spectators were filing out from an entertainment that was given in the chapel, Bradley walked out with them and all efforts to find him failed until recently tip was given out that he was in the state prison in Texas He will now be tried for escaping from an institution while serving a sentence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-13
WOMAN SHOT BY LOVER.
Was Decoyed to HIm and Killed in
 St. Joseph.

St. Joseph. Mo, July i2-Mrs. John Mackay died today from pistol wounds received early this morning at 2os Main street, where she is alleged to have been decoyed by William A Matzingss. Mat ginger has been In love with the woman for a year and when ahc JntsG him for another, he made threats against her life She met him by agreement and was soon afterwards fatally wounded
 Matzinger turned the revolver on him. self and put three bullets into his bcdy His death is expected
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-13
TO SECURE SHORTER ROUTE.
Mexican Central Is Trying to Reach
 St. Louis Over Its Own Tracks.

Columbus O., July 12-Edward StalIer, of the engineering corps of the Mexican Central Railway company, with head quarters in the City of Mexico, who re- turned to Columbus today on visit, says the Mexican Central, which enters Mexico at El Paso, is now trying 'a get shorter route to St. Louis, the objective point of the Mexican trade with the Int ed States.
 The present route Is over the Santa Fe railroad. The idea is to compete with the Mexican National railroad, whlch fol- lows the gulf shore.
 A survey has been made for a road fol- lowing more closely the gulf shore with a point of entrance at Laredo, but so far the projectors have been unable to secure the right of entrance at that point. owing to an agreement between The Mexican government and the National railway.