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The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
BUILDING Canning Factories.

The territory from Jackson TO
Gnlfport on the Gulf q Ship Island
road. promises 10 become the leading
fruit and vegetable raising section OF
the South. In order TO encourage
the industry the railroad company is
organizing stock companies for the
establishment of canning factories,
and within the next year or so can
ming factories will be dottng the
road at almost every town between
jackson and the coast Factories
have already been established at
Wiggins, Perkinson, MclIcnry and
Collins, with many more in pros
pect.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A dispatch from Berlin says that, as
result of the recent fires in Baltimore
and Toronto, the German insurance
companies have decided to abandon
their American business.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of
the Paris Matin telegraphed, on the
morning of the 9th: Il learn from a
sure source that the Vladivostok
squadron yesterday sank four Japan
ese transports, which were conveying
1000 men.
London dispatch of the 9th said
that It was learned from Toxic that
the Japanese had taken steps to cut
OF the return VladivostolS of the
Russian sqna4ton engaged in the re-
cent descent upon Gensan.
The West Albany shops of the New
York Central Railroad Co. were de-
stroyed by fire carly on the morning
OF the 9th, entailing loss of $780,
OOO. A large number Of cars we're
burned, including. It was said, one of
the fine Worlds fair trains
About 200 houses of the town of
Euczacz. Austria, were destroyed by
nre which broke out at midnight, of
the 25th. Some 1900 of the inhabitants
We're rendered homeless.
Iornadoes were reported, on the 25th,
IN indian territory, Missouri. southern
illnois and Kentucky, involving the
known loss of % lives and the de-
struetion of vast amounts of property.
brig.-Gen Joseph Dickinson, the last
ol the adjutant- generals of the Army
OF the Potomac, and chief OF staff un-
der Generals Hooker and Meade. dur
ing the civil war. died at Washington,
~ G., after an Illness of three months.
he was 7S years old
W. S. Hughes, the alleged defaulting
clerk of the water department of Col
orado Springs, Col, was tried on a
charge of embezzlement as city Of
nclai, on the 9th, and was acquitted
by jury.
Nharies s. Shumaker, candy sales
man OF Lancaster, o., was killed and
hSe other passengers injured in
wreck on the Norfolk & Western near
Hayesville. @.
walter Bradshaw. of Hot Springs,
nh., was instantly killed. and Joseph
supply. of Milwaukee, Wis, was IA
.aliy injured, on the 27th. BY falling
num a scaffold while working on
e',eet railroad trestle near Paoli, Ind.
hree lives were iostfand property
alued at 100000 was destroyed in a
a'e az the John Stanley soap works
~ New York on the 27th. The dead.
4. " wnom we're firemen, are: Thomas
'auigan, ~ James Cream. Hugo Arigone.
ne Marion tInd.) malleahle iron
shA erected at a cost OF 100000.
.ss almost totally destroyed by fra
On The s7.a.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
The Tide Of immigration.

Much success is being achieved by
the industrial bureau of the Gulf &
Ship Island road in starting the lido
of immigration toward Mississippi.
Within the past Two weeks j. IL.
Bouslog. the industrial agent of Tie
system, has brought twenty-five fam
lies from Indiana and Illinois
through Jackson en- route to points
on the Gulf & Ship Island road
south Of Jackson. and he states that
within the next few weeks he will
have a hundred or more families
from the same section.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07

Representing the President
beautiful peroration open. ye gates.
Swing wide ye portals. Enter herein
ye sons of men, and behold The
achievements of your race. Learn the
lessons here taught, and gather from 1t
inspiration for still greater achieve
ments."
Continuing on down The line came
the addresses by the prominent OH
cials connected with the exposition,
and after an address by Secretary of
War Taft, representing the president
of the United States, the president, at
the White House. IN the presence OF
the members of the diplomatic corps,
chief justices and associate justices of
the supreme court, members of the
cabinet the president of the senate,
and other persons distinguished in Of
fetal life, pressed the button connect
ed by wire with the exposition
grounds, which caused the releasing of
the electric current, and The great
machinery of the exposition began to
revolve, the same act unfurling the.
flags on all the buildings and setting
the great Cascades In motion.
Brief History of the Fair.
The Louisiana purchase exposition,
comprising comprehensive collection
and exhibition Of the worlds peoples.
products and Industries, modes Of liv-
ing, diversions, transportation facili-
ties, in fact, complete universal con-
centration of arts, manufactures and
products of the soil. mine, forest and
sea, had its inception in 1898, and was
completed in April, 1904. The exposi-
tion commentaries the centennial of
the purchase from France, in 1909, by
the United States, of the vast strip of
territory stretching from the Gulf of
Mexico TO the Dominion of Canada,
and extending from the Mississippi
river to the crest OF The Rocky Noun
tain range. and since known as THE
Louisiana Purchase territory.
The entire Mississippi valley orig
inally belonged to France by right of
discovery and exploration. In 1863
Spain acquired the Louisiana territory
after the treaty of peace at Paris
when France, which had ced
ed Louisiana to Spain undel
the secret treaty Of 1872, gave
up all her other possessions in North
America to Great Britain. Spain helt
the territory for 81 years, returning Il
TO France on the demand of Napoleon
Bonaparte. through the secret treaty
Of st. Lidefenso, October 1. 1900. Ma
poleon was then first consul of France
The United States, by the -evolu.lon-
airy war. had won sovereignty over the
territory between. the Atlantic ocean
and the Mississippi river. Spanish Of
| fcials were still IN authority at New
Orleans, although the Louisiana ter
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
charivari Party's Prank.

Lebanon. Ind, May Mrs. Hoover
Turpin, bride of two days, was seri-
ously injured by the explosion Of dy-
Mantle. set off by a charivari party at
her home. near Fayette. in the south
west part of this county. The dyna-
mite was placed in cherry tree near
the house and when it was exploded
the weatherboarding was torn from
one side Of the house and much plas-
tering shaken from the walls. Mrs.
Turpin was unconscious for several
hours. The members of the party were
apprehended and given their liberty
upon payment for the damage done
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
The Boil WeeviI's Progress.

Director W. l.. Hutchinson. Of the
Mississippi experiment station, SAYS ::
'srhe Mexican boil weevil is not only
travelling northward. but he IS also
moving eastward. lie is headed for
the Atlantic seaboard. Who can tell
how soon he may look upon the
Father of Waters from its western
bank? This insect interferes Sc
riously with the growing Of Gotten.
Improved cattle. always desirable,
may therefore become a necessity ~
Mississippi"
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
Municipal Ownership.

Mayor Hemingway, Of jackson,
has addressed letters 10 the various
municipalities in the State having
municipal ownership of water works
plants, making inquiry concerning
their experience with the system and
when the information is secured it
will be furnished the citizens rs a
guide for their voting at the election
10 be held in that city on the qnes'
lion Of municipal ownership.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
Papers for Veterans.

Mrs. Helen ID. Bell, of Jackson,
president of the Mississippi division
of the United Daughters of the Con
at the Beauvoir Soldiers Home. The
suggestion that boxes should be
placed in the hotel lobbies and rail
way stations of the principal towns
of the State in which the public will
be requested to place old newspapers,
magazines and other periodicals to
be sent TO the Confederate veterans
at the Beauvoir Soldiers Home. The
veterans at the home have very little
reading matter, and, in consequence,
their minds are unoceupled save Tor
for the time they spend fishing. II
is believed that if this arrangement
is made the express companies will
carry the bundles of newspapers and
magazines 10 Bcauyoir free Of
charge. The matter will be discussed
at The convention of the State chap
Ter to be held in Greenwood.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
GAINES HALL LyNcHED.
Negro Taken to Scene of His Crime
and Riddled With BuIIets.

Prattvile. Ala, May News
reached this city this morning that
Gaines Hall. the negro who assaulted
Mrs. Josiah Owens yesterday morning.
was caught at Kingston late yesterday
afternoon by posse. who took him to
the scene of the crime and tied him TO
a tree. The body was then riddled with
bullets. Several persons have visited
the place and saw the body still there.
The negroes refuse to take the body
dowu
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07

EX-SENATOR THOMAS II. CARTER
Chairman National Committee
The Representatives of the United
States at once accepted the offer and
the treaty was signed nj Paris, April
30, 1903 The formal transfer of the
territory took place at New Orleans,
December 20. 1903, and The Upper
Louisiana, at st. Louis on March 10,
1904.
The newly purchased territory ON
braced 100000 square miles, and Is
now divided into he following II
states and territories Louisiana, Ar
kansas. Missouri, Oklahoma, Indian
territory, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska,
Iowa, Minnesota. North Dakota, South
Dakota, Wyoming and Montana.
In the fore part of 1898 an editorial
was published in a st. Louis paper to
the effect that the centennials of the
great events in the history of tho
United States were not all over, and
predicting that the greatest was yet to
be held-the centennial of the aequisi-
tion of the Louisiana territory. This
editorial was taken up in the press and
commented upon, resulting in organ
lied agitation by the Missouri His
| torical society. The clamor for COM
| memorative centennial became so gen.
| era that, in response to strong public
sentiment Gov Stevens, of Missouri,
issued a call for a convention of dele
gates representing the states and ter
rItories embraced in the Louisiana
Purchase territory. TO be held in St
Louis on January 30. 1899. The con
vention was attended by 81 delegates
appointed by the respective governors,
and it was unanimously voted TO hold
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
Special Election Ordered.

Gov. Nardaman has ordered a spe-
cial election held in Warren county
on May 8, for the purpose of elect
ing a member of-the lower house
Of the legislature TO succeed ). n.
Collier, who recently resigned to ac-
cept the Office of county superln-
tendent of education. Several can
didates will offer for the place.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
Coal Vein Opened in pontotoc.

A rich vein of coal has been dis
covered on the farm Of y. II. Hart
ley, four miles west df Troy, Ponto-
Toe county An expert from the Ala
bama coal fields will be sent for and
steps taken TO develop the property.
The mine is located four gniles from
the NJ. j. & X. G. railroad, and can
be easily reached.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
Text Book Commission.

1t is expected that Gov. yarda-
man will name the uniform school
book within the next ten days. From
a good source it is learned that the
governor has the matter under Sc
rious consideration, and the names
of several of the eight teachers to
be selected have been decided upon.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
Returned From cuba.

State Insurance Commissioner
w @. Cole and State Revenue Agent
Writ Adams, who have been spend
ing the past two or three weeks IN
ing the past two or three weeks
and express themselves as much de-
lighted with the trip.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
Convict statistics.

The report of the secretary of the
board of control of the conyicts on
hand in the State penitentiary on
April %, is l,04l. During the
month of April there were brought
in sixteen convincts, and during the
same time the report shows that
there we're discharged Is, escaped
2, pardoned ), and deaths s.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07

St Louis, April 3o-To-day the City
marvel until the wonderful becomes a
matter of course, has thrown its gates
open. Its monster buildings, with
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
n,ea sudd.rIy of Apoplexy.

St Paul, MINI, May Col. A. r.
Keifer, republican candidate for con-
troller in the city election TO be de-
cided next Tuesday. died very sudden
Iy of apoplexy at the Ryon hotel at
noon Sunday. Mr.. Keifer was formerly
member of congress from this dis
trict, and served term as mayor Of
this city,
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
Strict Neutrality.

Stockholm. Sweden April 80. King
Oscar has signed decree declaring
strict neutrality between japan and
Russia during the war The decree IS
similar in terms to that issued by the
Danish government
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
WORLDS FAIR GATES
ARE OPENED WIDE
Consummation of an Event Four
Years in Preparation.
ALL OF ST. LOUIS WAS THERE
An Elaborate ProGrnmmc Of Excr-
ciscs Followed ny the starting
of Everything Moving by
President aooscNcIt.

An Elaborate Programme of Ever
ciscs Followed, at Noon, by the
Starting of Everything Moving
by the Touch of the Electric
button by President Roosevelt.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-05-07
The Truth Emphasized.

The increased popularity of our
State Agricultural and Mechanical
College serves but to emphasize the
fact that the farmer should be taught
in the public schools.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-02-05
To Look At Mines.

A small party of mining men will
arrive in this city within the next few
days They will spend several weeks
and possibly months in this vicin-
ity, and are sent here to thorough
ly examine the country. They will
seek to bond such properties as are
promising in the interest of a concern
with capital enough to work them all.
Probably something of this sort is
necessary to start the ball rolling.
No section of the west apparently of
fers more inducements for legitimate
mining investment. This is undoubt-
eddy the center of one of the best min
eral belts on the coast and one of the
most extensive. The time is not far
distant when Carson will be enjoying
such mining boom as her most san
guine citizens have never dreamed of.
News.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-02-05
Birthday Party.

Mrs. J. II. Martin was rendered a
birthday surprise party last Saturday
evening by her daughter, assisted by
Miss Bertha Dangberg and Miss Lottie
Henningsen. The evening was enjoy
ably spent with music and pleasant
conversation.
Red carnations and red shaded can
dies formed the decorations in the din
ing-room, where delicious refresh
ments were served at a late hour.
Mrs. Martin was the recipient of
many beautiful gifts.
The guests invited were, Mr.. and
Mrs. II. F. Dangberg, sr., Mr.. and
Mrs. II. G. Dangberg, Mr.. and Mrs.
c. c. Henningsen, Mrs. Arlie Williams,
Mr. and Mrs. Senator Dangberg, Mr..
and Mrs. J. B. Dangberg, Mr.. Mrs.
Dave Jones, Mrs. Pettigrew, Miss Ida
Pettigrew, Mr. and Mrs. Merrick and
Mrs. Soule.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-02-05
He is Still Going.

One Sunday young man called on
his best girl. After they had talked
until they could think of nothing more
to say, he declared his intention of
kissing her She was very indignant
and said she would tell her father if he
did. Remembering the old saying that
A faint heart never won fair lady, the
young man dared and planted a fairly
respectable kiss somewhere behind the
ear, The young woman arose hastily
and walked into the other room.
PA" she said, "Mr. Parsons wants
to see your new gum"
"All rightp' said the old man, de-
lighted with the chance to show off
his new gun. Taking it from the rack
he stepped into the drawing room.
The young man broke four windows
in getting out and when last seen he
was still running bare-headed down
the road Exchange.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-02-05

Harry James is sick at his home
with quinsey
Kissing is something like seven-up.
II he begs, and she thinks she can
m Ike points in the game, she will give
one.
The citizens of Carson met at the
court house last evening to take pre-
liminary steps toward holding a carna-
val and street fair next July.
New goods in great variety and pro-
fusion at the popular clothing store
OF Joseph Platt, in the county building,
Carson. Call and buy stylish suit.
Chris Jesperson is preparing to
build a room lGx20 feet on the back
end ofthe Yalhalla saloon. Part of the
lumber for the building arrived yes
terday.
MAN and wife are all one, are they?
said she. Eyes; what of it?" said he,
suspiciously. Why, in that case,u
said his wife, 81 came home awfully
tipsy last night and feel terribly
ashamed of myself this morning.
lie never said a word.
Dan Prindible, who was foreman for
+. {. Everett at the placer mines last
summer, met with a strange death in
Carson on Monday of last week. Ac-
cording to the report published in the
Appeal, he was engaged in sinking a
well in company with James Tutty
who was in the bottom of the well,
some eighty feet deep. Mr.. Prindible,
being on the surface and wishing to
descend, swung on the windlass rope
and started to slide down. He had
gone but a few feet, when he was un-
able to check his descend and drop.
ped to the bottom, striking on his
right leg and breaking it above the
ankle and injuring him across the
spine internally, from which injuries
he died some few hours afterwards
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-02-05
The Krummes Case.

The case of G. NJ. Krummes VS.. the
estate of II. Jayne, deceased, was
tried by jury of twelve men in the
Justices Court at Genoa last Monday.
The plaintiff sued for 1929, for casket
and expenses of burial of Henry Jayne.
The bill had been previously filed with
the Clerk of the District Court and the
Administrator of the estate, G. E..
Merrick, signified his intention of al
lowing Mr.. Krummes only $3.50.
Whereupon the undertaken sued for
the full amount of his claim.
The jury gave Mr.. Krummes STA
and decided that the defendant should
pay the costs in the case. The cost
bill is said to be heavy one, amount
ing to about $3.50, on account of the
large number of witnesses in the case.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-02-05
Millions for Mining.

A gigantic mining company, capital
lied at ssO,oOo,oO0 has been incorpo-
rated to work 5000 acres of mineral
bearing land reaching from Bingham
Utah, to Phoebe, Nevada. The Phoebe
Consolidated and Manhattan COM
pany's mines at Phoebe are included in
the deal, and s6,oOO,OOO is already avail
able to begin operations. The corpora
ton will be known as the Monarch
Mines q smelter Company, and was
organized under the laws of Maine.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-02-05

Congress is importuned to listen to
the general demand for a parcels
post. In the sending and delivery of
small packages by mail the United
States is behind all other enlighten-
ed countries. England can send a
package of merchandise half round
the world for what it costs to send it
from one town to another in this
country. John Wanamaker, who has
been there and knows, declares that
the rate charged by our postoffice for
merchandise is six thousand per cent
greater than that charged by Germany
for similar services. The chief oppo-
sition to a parcels post comes from the
express companies.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-02-05
A SAD ACCIDENT.
Two Alpine County Men Drowned
in Mud Lake.

The uncertainty of life is brought
close home by the drowning of Luther
Olds and Frank Monroe last Monday
morning in Mud lake. The accident
occurred about 10 O'Clock. Odds and
Monroe, accompanied by Frank Payne,
Jr., were out duck hunting, when Odds
broke through the ice about 10 yards
from the shore at the south end of the
lake.
The men had been ON the lake the
day before and the ice held them, and
it is supposed that Odds walked out on
the lake without any investigation, al
though the ice was only half an inch
thick.
Monroe saw Odds in the water and
made an effort to assist him. He had
his gun in his hand and was trying to
reach Odds with it, when the ice gave
way and he fell in. Monroe threw his
gun out on the ice, but made but a
short struggle for life. He went down
in few moments and did not come up
again, and it is supposed he got Under
the ice.
Mr.. Olds made desperate struggle
to get out of the water, but every time
he tried to raise himself onto the ice it
broke beneath him. 1t is said that he
swan and foated on his back for near
ly an hour.
In the meantime Frank Payne, who
was only short distance away when
the accident occurred, was not idle.
He saw that it was impossible for him
to approach his companions without
falling into the lake, and ran to the
north end of the lake for a boat. He
was unable to handle the boat, but
took the oars in the hope of using
them in some way to save Olds' life
He was, however, unable to render
him any assistance, and finally went to
the Milich ranch, about mile, and
reported the death of his friends.
Herman Erbst came from the ranch
to Gardnerville and spread the news
of the accident, and viii Dudley and
three other men went to the lake and,
with the aid of boat, succeeded in
recovering the bodies of the men.
They were taken out of the water at 6
O'Clock in the evening, and were taken
to Markleeville that night.
| The water was about seven feet deep
where the men were drowned. They
were good swimmers, but the rotten
ice was too great an obstacle to be
overcome.
Mr.. Odds was about % years of age
and leaves a wife and one child. He
was a son of Luther Odds, one of the
early settlers of Carson Valley. The
Olds boys of this section and Mrs.
Gilbert Briggs and Mrs. II. N. Blackie
are cousins of the deceased.
Frank Monroe was a son of Louis
Monroe, an old. resident of Alpine
county He was only 10 years of age.
His untimely death is a sad blow to his
parents and friends.
The funerals took place at Marklee-
vile Wednesday, many friends and
relatives being present, attesting the
esteem in which the young men were
held, and expressing heartfelt SYM
pathy for the bereaved.