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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-05-13

There is not a little speculation
now on the proposition that tine
Governor of Mississippi should be
a man who has demonstrated that
he is a successful business man.
A man named Bailey, born in Mis-
sissippi, but now a United States
senator from Texas, has been
poor as a church mouse all his
life, until the other day he receiv-
ee a 5000, 900 fee in a law suit.
The only man now in the race for
governor of Mississippi who boasts
Of an accumulation is said to
have had struggle Of it, and new
er had much to show for his bank
balance until a recent wind fall
blew In upon him in the shape Of a
big fee for one suit, and even then
it is not entirely clear whether
he earned the money or his law
partner. 1t will be a sorry day
for the South when men are weigh.
ed by the cash they handle instead
Of by the character they sustain, al
now.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-25
LOTTERIES A VIOLATION OF LAW
Judge George of Seattle Takes That
View of the Case.

Seattle.-'I can't see any difference
in principle between the lottery game
conducted by Lisle and Stone and a
regular roulette or other gambling
game" said Police Judge George
Money is bet that certain numbers
will be drawn out Of bowl in this
case. and in roulette money is bet that
a ball will stop on certain number
| will refer this matter to the superior
court for trial. The bonds of each of
the men will remain at $500"
Only one witness was sworn in the
lottery case when it came up for hear
ing before Judge George. Frank Ken
nedy. the city detective. who arrested
II. Lisle and w. Stone for conducting
"SCotty Ferguson's charitable lot
terry, was on the stand. Detective
Kennedy described the methods Of
drawing in the lottery. which were
The same as in every lottery ever ope-
rated il Seattle.
The question that arose was
whether the game was a gambling
device or not. Prosecuting Attorney
Scott and Deputy Prosecutor Craven
held that it was. and Attorney H, c.
Gill for the defense, said that il was
not. The court took the view that
the game was a gambling device I'M
der the law. and held the defendants
for trial.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-25
WHEAT CROP SHORT.
1t Will be Much Less Than the
Average.

COlfaX. Wash.-What per cent OF an
average crop Of grain will be produced
in Whitman county and what price
will be paid for the crop are two
questions of vital interest to the
farmers as well as every citizen OF
Whitman county al this time. That
the crop will not be up 20 the average
OF former years is generally believed,
but the amount OF the shortage VARIES
with the estimate Of nearly every IN
dividual asked.
Some Of the most pessimistic de
clare there will not be more than 90
per cent, Of an average crop, bur
grain buyers who have made care
full study Of conditions. predict that
Whitman county will produce from
50 to 90 per cent. as much grain as
last wear. which was about an average
crop.
A. NJ. Scott. general agent for Bal
four. Guthrie & Co. has just return
ed from a tour of the grain districts
of eastern Washington, having been
through the Big Bend, Adams county
and the PalOuse country He said:
but there Will be more grain than
many people think. | place the yield
of Whitman county at from So TO 80
per cent. of last years crop while the
entire wheat district of eastern Wash
ington may not average more than Is
per cent. of an average yield.
Il was over in Adams county last
week and inspected the crop there.
In the Rattlesnake fiat country grain
looks well and a good yield is practf-
cally assured. In other places the
crop is considerably short and the av-
erage yield may be cut down to IS
per cent. of full crop.
"Colfax being about the dividing
line of the lighter soils of the western
half and the heavier soils of the east
ern half Of Whitman county. the
grain west of here is lighter than to
the east and north. 1t grows gradu-
ally lighter as one goes west, while
in many localities north and east of
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-25

would take this boy to Keosauqua with
him to see the sights and they were
admitted by the yOungster to be mar
velous. That lad was William A.
Clark. now of Montana. whose name
today is the symbol Of quantity OF
dollars that cannot be counted.
A. G.. Davis, the Montana millionaire
whose name became famous by the
contest over his estate. was Ken
tuckian in early days, as was Edwin
Manning, who became a millionaire
and the richest man in Iowa in his
prime He made it by banking and
buying land.
A boy who was born and grew to
early manhood without attracting es-
pecial attention in keosauqua town
was George w. McCrary. He later
became congressman, United States
district Judge and finally secretary of
war under Hayes He was associated
in the practice of law with Judge
Samuel F. Miller of Keokuk, who
transacted so much business and had
such intimate relations in Keosauqua
that the town claims him.
John F. Dillon, now of New York
city, attorney for the Goulds, was a
boy in old Keosauqua, serving on the
Iowa supreme bench for time. Other
Keosaukuans were J. c. Bonney. sec
rotary of state for Iowa, beginning in
1913; J. B. Howell. later editor of the
Keokuk Gate City and appointed
United States senator in 1870; c. C.
Nourse, now Des Moines lawyer,
attorney general in 1S6067; J. c..
Hall, whose son Benjamin was con-
gresham from the first district.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-25

here the prospects are fully up to
that of last year.
"Of course a great deal depends
upon the weather from now until har-
vest, but with favorable weather | am
confident Whitman county will pro
duce at least 50 per cent of as much
grain as last year
Regarding the price, Mr.. Scott said:
1T is too early to form a close
estimate of what the crop will sell
for, but | am quite certain the price
will be above 80 cents. | expect the
market to open at from 55 to so cents.
Everything indicates that grain will
be higher this year than usual. The
price at the seaboard holds firm at
about 60 to ga cents, while charters
remain at bedrock prices which pre-
vailed last year. Australia is short
of wheat and the crop in the middle
states has been materially cut down
by the floods and other disasters.
while the crop on the Pacific coast is
bound to be short. all of which will
tend to raise the price of wheat on
this coast look for better prices
than last year. Wheat can now be
contracted for early delivery after
harvest at 81 and 50 cents. Very lit
tie has been contracted. as contracting
in advance has generally proved I'M
satisfactory. Last year farmers lost
money by contracting their wheat be-
fore harvest. This year they are not
anxious to contract. | have made a
few contracts at 30 cents for small
amounts. where farmers were in need
of money and were willing to sell at
that price in order to get money now.
The acreage Of wheat in Whitman
county is believed to be about equal
70 that of last year. In some locali- |
ties the acreage is less, while in
others it, is greater than in 1902. but
grain men say that the total acreage
Of the county is about the same as
last year. and the total yield will be
from s. 10 80 per cent. OF as much |
grain as the county produced in 1892.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-25
COUNTIES NOT RESPONSIBLE
Supreme Court Holds That Counties
Are Not Liable.

Olympia. Wash.-The supreme court
has handed down an opinion in which
1t holds that counties are not charge
able with the costs of taking appeals
IN criminal cases. The question was
brought up in the case of George D..
Carpenter. who was convicted of a
felony in Lewis county, September q,
1907. and appealed to the county to
pay the costs of his appeal to the
higher court
Judge A E. Rice entered an order
directing the payment Of a county
warrant for $50 in favor of |. H. Cal
IlsOn for printing a brief in the ap-
peal and Prosecuting Attorney Maui
rice Z. Langhorne at once asked for
a writ to have the action of Judge
Rice reversed by the supreme court.
That body agrees that Judge Rice's
order should be set aside on the
ground that there is no statutory pro-
vision by which counties are charge
able with the costs of printing briefs
IN criminal cases and certainly there
IS no provision for peremptOry judg-
ment against the county without ap-
pearance or notice as in this case
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-25
GOVERNMENT
EXPERT DECLARES
After an Examination That Heppnel
Can Be Easily Protected
by LeVees.
The Pendleton Tribune says:

Inc TenQIetOn 1flDQne says:
There has been wild talk and ne
cessarily surpurfious talk about
abandoning the town site of Heppner
since the recent disaster. Heppner.
of course. has suffered severely. but
in the opinion Of John T. Whistler.
civil engineer Of the Z. S. Geological
survey, who has returned from Hepp-
ner where he made extensive SURVEYS
this is ungrOunded. He says that
with the expenditure of small
amount of money, small compared
with the property losses occasioned
by the flood, the town can be insured
against the repetition of such a ca
lamity. Mr.. Whistler figures from a
mathematical point of view and offer
ing no suggestions he shows Just
what the flood was and how the havoc
was wrought. By building levees or
charging the river bed to feet width
at bottom, 100 feet at top and 10 feet
deep, the channel would be provided
of sufficient capacity to carry off the
entire volume of water let loose
by the flood Of Sunday evening.
There is already some talk at Hepp-
ner of erecting levees but so far the
people have not been assured that
this method would provide protec-
ton. Mr. Whistler is probably the
first man to make a survey of the
situation and determine whether or
not levees would provide safety. Mr..
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-25

| them. so | could kill myself. | did
| not want to be taken alive and
wanted to get far enough away Sc
! that they would not find my body.
did not want 10 take my own life,
| wanted some one else to do it. | had
| decided to kill myself. that was the
reason | wrote what | did in the book
that was found on NE. wrote thai
Monday.
Il was down in the woods west of
Newt Harris's Sunday morning.
! did not see Newt Harris down there
with a gun. | went up through the
field and was south of the house when
New Harris came out Of the pig pen.
| sass: New, | have come back here
to get eyel with you.
:" was twenty or thirty feet away
from him when | shot him, on the
west side OF the picket fence. | don't
know how many times | shot him. |
amptied my gun, but don't know how
many shO,s. don't know where
nit him. After that | jumped over
the picket fence and started through
the meadow. | never shot at Mrs.
Harris. | shot back over the orchard.
If | had wanted to shoot her I could
have come pretty near getting her.
Il shot my step-mOther through the
screen door She was sitting at the
table. | shot through the west door
and jumped back and walked around
the house and met my father. | never
told my father that | was Deputy
Sheriff George MAR. | stayed around
the house for a long time. | thought
some one would shoot me, but they
wouldn't do it, | never ate supper
at the house There were men all
around the house when | left. | went
down the road east, and then through
the field southeast. | was talking
to John LOvitt out in the road.
Il never talked to any one since
Sunday night until | talked to Jerry
Mink Monday evening. jerry Mink
never gaVa me anything to eat.
Did No Expect Bloodhounds.
Il never XIV that there was a re-
ward offered for me, but | supposed
there would be. | did not think that
they would get bloodhounds. | put
pepper on my shoes | had a can Of
pepper in my pocket. | would have
put it on sooner but | didn't think
they would get the blOOdhOunds after
me. | saw the boys who were after
me and knew their faces. | was not
mad at them, guess they We're doing
what was right.
Il was not drinking when | came
to Maysville. drank TWO small
glasses of beer in Quincy and that
was all | had bottle of whiskey
when | came to Maysyille, but it was
red-eye, and was no good, and | broke
it on the buggy wheel. | can prove
that by Jim Brown. | didn't drink
any Of it.
Lula Harris told a dirty story
about me when | was going TO school
Her father took it up for her and so
did my father. | never said anything
to Lula about it, but | told Bill Har-
ris if his father did not take it back
| would get even with him for it.
was always joshed about that story
Il never had any desire to be an
outlaw. | have no trade and expected
to be farmer.
The desire to get even with Harris
and my stepmother was so strong that
| was willing to sacrifice anything
else for it."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-25
Clark and Davis.

In the meantime a red headed boy
was playing with a few not very Sc
lect companions in the streets, or.
rather, street of BentonspOrt, a tiny
embryo of a town few miles below
Keosauqua Occasionally his father
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26
AFTER A POPULAR NOVEL

tom Mason in Life.)
Why did the town nestle among the
hills?
Why did she feel mantling blush
steal over her cheeks. H,... - - -
How did it happen that a strange
sense OF unrest swept over him?
What was it that she swept out of
the room
Why did she never look more
strangely beautiful than upon that
evening.
What made him fieck the ashes from
his cigarette?
How long did her heart stand still
Who deserted the ballroom, and
why?
Why did the cold wind that famed
their cheeks feel so poody
Why did il seem to her rs il all the
light had some out Of her young life
What made the house stiller than
death that night?
When confronted by the lawyer,
why was she visibly affected.
Why was she the life of the whole
gathering when her heart told her tina,
all was lost,
Why did the dog look ND at that
moment and wag his tail, as he too,
understoodsshsr'
What choked her utteranoe!
What made her look back on that
day all the rest of her ilfel
Why was there long psuse'
Why were her hands so nervelesi
when she let the telegram drop,
What made her suspect that he hat
been drinking.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26
CAME TO GRIEF
NEGRO "GOT BAD" AND THE
OTHER FELLOW PROVED TO
BE THE WORST.

George Wright, cclored, was found
on lower Kentucky street yesterday
afternoon late in bloody plight, and
claimed that Tom Parker cut him.
He had four or more stab wounds on
his head. and a slight flesh wound on
the arm.
As near rs the police could get at
the facts, Wright found Parker with
his sweetheart and assaulted him, and
Parker proved to DO about ~ bad as
his assailant, and did good work with
the knife. Wright was taken to the
city hall and there doctors patched
him mp, and he does not appear to be
badly hurt unless complications arise.
Parker was arrested.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26

The grand jury at Chicago did not
mince words in its report relative to
the livery drivers strike. 1t said
eve find that for several months ire
sponsible organizations have been Gre
ating disorder in Cock county, destroy
ing property and defying the law. We
have found that ordinary subpoenas
and subpoenas duces tecum made
forthwith and issued by this court
have been evaded. 1t is public report
that at present in Chicago houses Of
worship and houses of mourning are
made the scenes of disorder by men
calling themselves union pickets and
that the bodies of the dead are desc.
Grated. We believe that these oondi-
tions fully Justify careful examina-
ton, and we respectfully suggest that
the conditions we have reoited be
made q special subject of inquiry by
the January grand jury"
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26
SOCIETY WOMEN
As Well as the Housewife and Professional Women Endorse
Peru.na as Specific for Winter Diseases.

brane into the lungs where II will In
followed by cough, night sweats, rapid
loss OF flesh, and the other dread symp-
toms OF consumption.
To all such people DR.. Hartman's
treatment comes rs q great boon. IL II
only necessary 10 send name and address
10 DR.. Hartman, Columb bus, o., and COM
plete directions for the first months
treatment will be sent free.
Not only Is IL moro successful In cur.
ing catarrh than the treatment of CO.
tarrh specialists, but II Ia In the reach
Of every person in this land,
A medicine which is the principal part
OF DR.. Hartman's treatment, known a.
Peruna, can DO bought at any drug
store, and Is remedy without equal for
catarrh in all forms, coughs, colds, bron-
chitis, consumption, and all climatic dis
eases of winter. Each bottle IL accom-
panied with complete directions for use.
Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Of
Columbus, Ohio, for copy of their latest
catarrh book, instructively illustrated,
and contains "a pages of the latest In
formation on catarrhal diseases. Sent
free 10 any address.
A Housewife who Suffered as Yeara
Mrs. ALA schwandt, sanborn, MINI,
writes;
al have been troubled with catarrh
for twenty-five years. Could not sleep
day OF night After having used Peruns
I can sleep and nothing bothers mo
now v-Mvs Ala Gch~ap1t
Mrs. Jennie Cable, Spokane, WASH,
writes;
"After suffering for twenty-one years
with neuralgia, caused by catarrh Of
head, 1 tried all doctors and all kinds q
medicine, receiving no benefit I be-
came discouraged and worn out at last
MY mother wrote me To take DIR. Hart
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change OF life. Through the use Of Pc
runA and AAnalin I Am now entirely
well.
"when began taking your medicine
only weighed 81 pounds; now I weigh
ITO. / have not taken drop Of medicine
for seven months, and would advise all
sufferers W consult DIR. Hartman. Tho
neuralgia affected my head and eye,
and for the last year seemed 10 DO In my
breast and between my shculder blades."
Mrs. Jennie Cable.
II you do not derive prompt and sat-
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write at once W DR.. Hartman, giving .
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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26
And save your he aIth.

they are in other countries-by con.
stantly guarding then, but not by pass.
ing laws for the purpose. Men who
xiii or desire to kill the great men Of
their age have no respect for, or fear
of, any law. This is evidenced by the
attacks made frequently on crowned
heads, which are usually punished by
prompt -ocution. Therefore there
seems to 10 li.tle reason for congress
taking up the country's time passing
laws designed to accomplish the i'm
possible.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26

All good citizens desire every safe
guard possible thrown about the life
Of our president, but it can't be done
BY law. Men who seek or would take
the life Of president have no fear of
che law and its consequences. Hall
of them, if not all of them. are crazy
20 begin with, and the law does not
ssnslly touch crazy people The lives
Ct our great men may be protected at
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26
TURNING ON THE LIMELIGHT.

The power of the press is great, and
those who are to be found denounoiDg
newspapers arc usually the ones who
have the greatest cause to fear an ex-
posure of their methods in dealing
With the public.
A North .Carolins minister seems to
have fostered rs great and abiding an
cnmity towards the press as has that
renowned CRATER, "Elijah" Dowie,
and the Louisville Herald, in COM
nenting on the fact, says that it all
came from the minister's public utter
ances, which did not take well with
the people. Not until then did he
Name the paper for publishing it. OF
course the propriety Of his publicly
saying what he did never occurred to
him.
so he has started crusade to muz-
xle the press, and the Herald says that
aiding him are "boodlers, grsfters,
sorruptionists, ballot stealers. thugs,
thieves, gamblers and the diversified
host that prospers by vice In every
form. The crooked politician and the
windbag, to whom kindly press had
given temporary fame which his
worthlessness soon lost, are conspiou.
Gus in calling for press muzzling leg.
islation. But the solid, thoughtful
unassuming and determined good cit
ixenship of the country, regarding the
press as the peoples bllwark against
grafters ct III omne genus, refuses tc
indorse the assault on its freedom
The good citizens of the republic 90 sc
far n to applaud the courageous news
PAPER which exposes sham, assails
frnud and let's in the light on corrup
tion's dsrksome deeds. An evil do,
In 1t for any paper when the oohort
Il corruption praise its methods. New
"a was there more urgent need than to
day Of a fearless, olear-sighted, oandi,
yress to unnask bride giver and brib
p tsksr, denounoe graft and boodlinR
defend the public veal against ever
form Of unrighteousness greed and in
sAtiaable rapacity."
Needless to say, this modern Do
QuiIote will succeed only in maxim
himself . laughing stock.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26

Naval experts, in view Of the threat
ening situation in the far East, fore
cast that Japan will sweep Russia from
the sea and quickly follow mp the ad
vantage thus gained in land cam
paign.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26
a Free Peruna Almanac For 1904.
STOCK FARM
MEN FROM ILLINOIS ARRIVE
TO BEGIN NEW INDUSTRY.

Messrs W. l.. Robert and Charles
b. Bower, of wehaton. Ill. are in the
city to prepare for starting a stock
farm near the city, six miles on the
Benton road They brought a car load
of fine stock and IL is understood will
breed principally Angora goats. They
own about 500 arces Of fine land and
will start mp Immediately.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26
STATEMENT.

DAILY AVERAGE, 273s.
October average 22oI.
Personally appeared before me this
day Z. J. Paxton, general manager Of
The Sun, who affirms that the above
statement of the circulation of The
Sum for the month of Nov, 1903, is tue
20 the best of his knowledge and belief.
PETER PURyEAR,
Notar, Public McCracken County.
Ny commission expires at the end Of
the next session of the senate.
Dec. I, 1903.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26

Some papers may have to appear
every day and Sunday and on holidays
to give readers their moneys worth,
but not The Sun. 1t shines for all
six days in the week. And Sundays,
Christmas and Fourth of July il gives
its employees rest.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26
.SHADOWOFTHBCLOCK
Police Have a Busy Week of it
This Week.
Very Little Disorder, However
Number Of Small Robberies
Reported.
MARSHAL RECEIVES PRESENT

Marshal James Grow, who does not
retire as city marshal for several days
yet, was yesterday presented by Capt.
Henry Bailey, Lieut.. Frank Harlan
and Patrol Driver John Austin with a
handsome gold headed cane in mem
DRY of their pleasant and harmonious
work together for the past two years.
Marshal Grow greatly appreciates it.,
and it will be kept by him as me-
mento of his pleasant service with its
donors and the police force.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26

Miss Msnuela Flores, who assumed
the government Of Linnres, Mexico.
during the recent yellow fever cpl
demic is being flooded with letters
proposing marriage by Americans.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26

The second alarm was answered AT
the Jones residence at Third and Mad.
ison street at O'Clock last night.
Sparks from the chimney set fire to
the roof but no damage was done.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-26
SMALL FIRES
BUT LITE DAMAGE WAS DONE
HOWEVER.

The FIRE department answered two
alarms yesterday. The first was at
2 80 in the morning to the residence
Of Mr.. McCutcheon, at 1900 Monroe
street. Some paper in the fue WAS
burning and no damage was done the
house.