Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1903-11-04
Geographic Sparks.

st. Louis, Oct. 2S.-A long line Of
depositors stretched away from the
closed doors of the Mississippi Valley
Trust company, the Lincoln Trust
company, the Mercantile Trust COM
pany and the Missouri Trust company
this morning long before ten O'Clock.
Small crowds also assembled before
<the doors of the savings institutions
nearby. 1t was observed that those in
line were mostly working people many
of them women, whose savings were
not heavy.
Owing to the action taken last
night by the officials of the Trust
companies doing business in st. Louis
requiring thirty and sixty days no
tices of intention to with draw funds,
the depositors were unable to get their
money. All they could do was to de-
clare their intention of Withdrawing
their deposits at the end of the time
taken advantage of by the companies
under their rules.
The greatest crowd surrounded the
Mercantile Trust company. When the
doors were opened the crowd surged
forward, carrying the police away
from their posts at the doors. Many
women in the crowd had their dresses
halt torn off. Personal encounters be-
tween contending depositors for places
were frequent. President Wade
mounted a chair and announced that
unless the depositors formed a line
they would be elected from the bank
building. Some semblance of order
was then restored and the depositors
filed in on one side or the other. At
ten O'Clock the crowd was handled
roughly by the police and reinforce
ments had to be summoned to handle
it. At the various institutions named
the 5officials state that current &C
counts are being received and paid
out as usual. The officers of the in
situations made resssuring speeches
of gold in express twagons seemed to
restore the confidence of the crowd
somewhat. All the companies declare
that they are able and ready to pay
every cent when it falls due.
Guthrie, Okla, Oct. 2s.-Two out
laws were taken from the Rock Island
rain at Chickasha, l. T., this morning
by United States Marshal Madison,
after severe struggle, and landed in
Jail. The men, whose names are H.
L. Marshall aud a. J. Baker, had
driven all the passengers out of the
smoker an we're INDUCING in the pas
time. OF shooting out the car windows
and through the car, two bullets from
their revolvers penetrating seats which
had but a few minutes before been &C.
cupied by passengers. After the train
crews failure TO quiet them officers
were telegraphed for. The heaviest
sentence for this crime in the terri
tory is twenty one years.
St. Louis. Oct. 28.-The drivers of
all express companies, numbering -four
hundred, struck today because the
demands Of the Pacific Express COM
pany's employees we're not granted.
Memphis, Oct. 2s.-Lou Dillon
made a mile 10 a wagon in two min
utes fiat here today.
Washington. Oct IS. The presence
of the presidents son Quentin in the
public schools of Washington was
one of the most interesting discOverie:
made by the members of the Moseley
commission of EnglishmeD now il
Washington studying our educationa
system. Ii impressed Oh their minds
the thorough democracy of the Ameri
can public school system.
When informed the son of the pres
ident was a student in the publ,
schools, the visiting educators asked
4. 7. Stewart. superintendent of pub
lie schools. how, under the American
plan. he was able to keep the schoo
select and see that only children o
approved character were brought int
contact with the presidents son
When assured there was no attempt a
v excIusiveness, and that the son of tn
corner grocer or the blacksmith wa
on the same footing as the child o
the president, the visitors marvelet
greatly.
They at once arranged to visit th
particular schOOl-the Force school
which Quentin attended, and after go
in there, today as one of them said
left witb"a better idea Of the meaning
of the American democracy"
Pjttsburg, Oct. 2s.-The city o
Allegheny will be qusrantined toda,