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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-04-08
SCHOOL BOARD MEETS

The Loard of public instruction in
and for Marion county, Florida, met
this the 4th day of April 1904, in
regular session with q. ;. Scott, chair
man, B. r. Bitch and J. ;. Grantham
present.
Minutes of last meeting were read
and approved.
The secretary reported that he had
advertised according to law and 10y
instructions Of the board for elections
to be held throughout the county, in
every special tax school district, on
Tuesday, April 5.h, 1904. That he
had had poll list made, tickets print
ed and sent with other necessary
papers to ;he different districts.
a request from negro of the
Blitchton neighOOrhood asking the
board to refund him one dollar poll
tax which ne had paid the tax col.
lectOT when he was exempt 10y law
on account of age.
The county commissioners also recon-
mmended its payment. The board
was OF the opinion tina; il had no
authority to refund any taxes turned
into the treasury of the schools. The
matter was referred TO the secretary
to look up and If found that the board
had such authority TO draw warrant
for the amount.
The insurance on the school houses
and furniture throughout the county
having expired the superintendent
was instructed to make up correct
list and values of ali houses and furul-
ture owned 10y the county and have
same insured for five years. The rate
being 80 cents on the 81.
The secretary was asked to go before
the county commissioners and ask if
they would have awnings put over the
windows Of the Office Of the board of
public instruction.
The bills for printing tickets, MAX
ing out poll list and advertising the
elections were ordered paid from the
district funds and the secretary il
siructed 10 proportions the amounts
to the different districts and draw
warrants for same, as the law requires
the expenses of the slections to be
paid by the districts.
n petition was before the board
signed by one fourth of the qualified
voters of Fairfield who pay tax Oh
real or personal property, asking that
the board call an election to create
special tax school district. A protest
was before the board from D. H
Irvine ohjecting to the election being
called so as to include sections 5 and
6 of township Is south, range - east,
claiming that these sections belonged
To Irvine school.
After considering the matter the
election was called TO include all
territory asked for in the petition
except the two sections above men.
toned, and May oath, 1904, was the
date fixed for holding said election.
Reports and accounts amounting to
S3076.77 were approved and ordered
paid.
Treasurer's report showing total
receipts for March S5l42.4I and dis
bursements S5l6l.50 leaving balance
Of 81 cents were approved.
w. d. earn,
Secretary.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-04-08

icaI attention it will doubtless improve,
and she will be useful on the farm. She
is now cooking for the inmates and
will soon be in condition TO do the
sewing. mending, etc. The junior su-
perintendent is getting on nicely. is
growing fast and seems to know what
is going on around him.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-04-08
Only Two New Cases

New York, April Only two new
cases OF bubonic plague developed on
Monday, says a Herald dispatch from
Lima, Peru. The government has
ordered a strict examination of All
passengers and disinfection Of has.
gage on all trains leaving Lima ana
also on steamers leaving Callao. San.
itary stations have been established II
Payta Callao and Ito.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-04-08
Expenses for March

superintendent salary. So; field
hands for the month, S34.S0; cook,
$3.50; washing and ironing, 81. Total
for labor. $3.50.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-09
DIVORCE FOR A DIME.
Salem Man Spends Money for Dead
ly Poison.

SALEM Or. Dec. 9.-It cost just 10
cents to dissolve the bonds of matri-
mOny existing between c. W. McIlwain
and his wife, and that 10 cents was
spent for carbolic acid. The husband
effected the separation, and his re-
mains are now in the custody of Cor
Oner ClOugh.
May %, last, McIlwain married Miss
Leona Cameron, the ceremony being
performed by City Recorder Judah.
Ever since that time husband and wife
had been quarreling, and the husband
had several times sought advice from
Mr.. Judah on the divorce subject. FL
nally he told Mr.. Judah that he had
completed his plans to secure a di-
vorce.
McIlwain went directly from the city
hall to a drug store and bought an
ounce of carbolic acid, saying he
wanted it for use in an antiseptic wash.
He then went to his rooms in the
HutchinS rOoming apartments and
swallowed the contents of the bottle.
His wife entered the room a moment
later and was gleefully told by her
husband that he had fixed it so you
can't get me back this time" He at
tempted suicide several months ago,
but an antidOte saved his life.
McIlwain had followed various oc-
equations in Salem, but had not been
very successful. He leaves a brother
c. f. McIlwain, proprietor of a Salem
bakery
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-09

Kansas Fair and Carnival association,
and Fred Stearns, one of the timers.
were made cognizant of the scheme
just before the trial was pulled off.
and that the former concurred in it
while the latter remained silent.
OF Harry Games, the other timer,
the affiant is made to state that he
knew nothing, not even being aware
that he was in the stand or held a
watch. The original affidavit will be
presented at the hearing of the contest
before the board of appeals next week.
Both President Irwin and Timer
,Stearns saw the copy" Both imme-
diately wrote to, Secretary knight that
any reference to them was false and
absolutely without foundation. Jordan
is a hOrseman and starting Judge Of
considerable experience.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-09

TO PUT BRAKE ON DIVORCE
MAKE THAT RECOMMENDED
jTION TO LEGISLATURE.
He Believes That More Strict Laws
Should Be Passed Regulating
the Procedure.

BELLINGHAM, Wash, Dec. 9.-The
divorce evil and the prevention of un-
necessary delays in the prosecution
of prisoners will be two of the import
ant things dealt with in Governor
elect Mead's first message to the legis-
lature of the state Of Washington.
Mead believes that more strict laws
should be passed regulating the secur-
ing of divorces His friends say that
he will recommend a law providing
that persons desiring a divorce shall be
required to file proceedings with the
court six months before the decree
may be granted. This law would make
the act of a divorced person marrying
a third person within six months biga-
my, which is punishable anywhere in
the United States.
AS a supplement to the divorce
recommendations it is believed that
Mead will advocate that law be
passed. making it felony for hus-
band to desert his wife and family.
The governor reject believes that the
present regulations of divorce and de-
sertion are entirely too liberal. That
a premium is placed on hasty mas-
riages by the idea that if the union is
not a happy one that it may be dis
solved by the courts.
Friends who are close to the gov
ernor- elect say that he believes that
the time is ripe for a revision of the
statutes which cause long and tedious
delays after a criminal is arrested until
his trial or appeal is taken up by the
courts 1t is believed that he will ad-
vocate that the time consumed in the
court of appeals be lessened by one
half
1t is asserted that Mead believes
that much of the delay is caused by
the courts allowing time to be con-
sun-ed by stipulations'a nd trivial mo-
lions. Also that he believes that court
stenOgraphers should be paid by the
county in every instance This. it is
said, would result in the handing in
of the transcript of a case or the find
ings of fact without delay.
In the supreme court it is under
stood that Mead believes that a great
up of all criminal cases Immediately af-
ter appeal and set aside civil suits for
the time being in which people in the
state, at large have no interest.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-09
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY PACT.
New England Financial Interests Arc
Encouraged by Fairbanks.

| SALEM, Dec. 9.-The speech OF
| Senator Fairbanks before the Home
/ Market club in Boston recently is be-
/ lieved here to be inspired by President
through friends to have Fairbanks act
| as his spokesman on tariff subjects be-
fore a dyed-in the-wool high protec-
| ton organization.
The plan was to indicate clearly to
them that they would have to accede
to some tariff reductions in the near
future, if the president succeeds in
carrying out his plans.
1t is also said that steps have been
taken to reassemble the joint American
and Canadian high commission to
make arrangements for a reciprocity
measure between the United States
and the British possessions in North
America.
Senator Fairbanks was president Of
the American branch of the joint COM
mission and it is now said by men,
bers of the Home Market club that Mr..
Roosevelt favors a reassembling of the
commission and joint report of a
suitable treaty to both governments
for their adoption, which will remove
ALI future bones of contention between
the United States and Canada, and at
the same time give them desired re-
ciprocal trade.
The New England financial interests
regard the reopening of the negotla-
tions of a reciprocity treaty with Can
ada as now practically assured. The
joint high commission will probably
reassemble in Washington, ID. C., on
this occasion, as on the former occa-
sions they met in Canada.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-09
SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST HIM.
Some Doubt Is Cast Upon Cresceus'
Wichita Performance.

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 9.-That the
coming session of the American Trot-
ting association will see the formal
dlSbarment of CreSceus, the famous
trottlng stallion, his owner, George
Ketchum of Toledo, and the Wichita.
Kan, track is confidently predicted by
Fred T. Moran of Detroit one of the
associations directors, who left De-
troit last night to attend the meeting.
The cause of the contemplated action
is the alleged Job" which attended the
mile of Cresceus at Wichita in the fall
of 1903. The time for the mile was an
nounced at 1:59A.
This summer said Mr.. Moran, I'VE
had four Pinkerton detectives at work
at Wichita and elsewhere on the case.
for a period of over four months. AS a
result We have mass of testimony
all showing that the alleged perform
ance was not attained. In one particu-
lar we have been unusually successful
from one of the most intimately con-
cerned in the transaction we have
secured an affidavit stating the actual
time made by the horse and exposing
the complete plan laid by Mr.. Ketchum
to which the track authorities consent
ed in full.
Il see no way in which the trotting
association can avoid making Cresceus
an outlaw, expelling his owner from
competition on all the tracks controlled
by the association and putting the
Wichita track on the blacklist"
WICHITA, Kan, Dec. 9-What mr.
ported TO be carbon copy of an affida-
Wit sworn to by A. S. Jordan of Lyons.
Kan, created considerable of a sem
was shown to them
In it the statement is made that
there was an agreement between the
affiant, who was starting judge and
timer when Cresceus was said to have
made his famous mark of 1.5e% on the
Wichita track Oct 10, 1903. and Geo.
M. ketchum, owner and driver of the
stallion, whereby the horse was to be
given mark under two minutes re-
CARELESS of the time made. The al
legged affidavit also sets out that c..
NJ. Irwin, president of the Southern
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-09
SAGE SCOUTS zEMsTvos' PLAN.
Says 1t Will Retard AmeIioration of
Social Conditions In Russia.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 9-In a
cablegram to the Philadelphia North
American, Count Leo Tolstoy condemns
the recent zemstvo agitation in Rus
STA. eliminating in demand for a
constitutional government. as obstruc-
tive of real progress in the cars do
minions. He says:
The present political agitation
among the Russian people resulting in
a direct appeal to the car by repre-
sentatives of the zemstvos, aims to
bring about restriction of the despot-
ism that now prevails and the estab-
lishment of representative government.
The question seems to be this: viii
the leaders Of the agitation achieve
what they desire or anything approach
ing it, or will their efforts expend
themselves in stirring up public pro-
test without result?
The country and the people are
too great, and the gulf between the
present government and the people. in
some respects, is too vast, to permit
sensible forecast at this time.
But l declare that whatever the
outcome, one sure result of the whole
matter will be to delay true social
ameloration.
This movement, which is hailed
as the dawning of a new era of lib
erty, is but a new obstacle in the
path of true progress.
THE real uplifting of a people, So
cially and governmentally, can be at
tanned only through religious and
moral regeneration of all the indvidu-
ais constituting that people.
Political agitation, whether by
peaceful propaganda or appeals to eX-
listing powers of government must
have a fatal effect. 1t puts before the
nation and before individuals the per-
niciOus illusion that social improve
illclll Cdll Dc ny mere C1ldliSe
of fOrms-that substitution of a differ
ent kind of government, or amendment
of the existing kind, can accomplish
reforms, which, to be effective and
permanent, must begin with the indi-
vidual
These movements, so frequent in
history and so natural under the false
teachings which have blinded human
ity, invaribly hinder real progress to-
ward peace, justice and love.
constitutional government is no
cure for the evils that affiict mankind.
For proof of this, 1 point to cond1-
lions in France, in England and in
America
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-09
JAMES FRUDLEsoN WAS BADLY
BURNED, is SAVED BY
HEROIC SACRIFICE.
work OF Skin Grating Has Proven
Successful at Vancouver, Brit
ish Columbia.

VANCOUVER, B. c.. Dec. 9.-Rather
than permit James Findleson, a man
frightfully scalded in an explosion Of
steam launch boiler on Portland
canal, to pas through lift with skin
of chickens grated to his face and
shoulders, the women of Port Simpson.
at great pain to themselves. submitted
to the sacrifice of their own fair flesh.
Altogether LA square inches of skin
was implanted on Findleson's scalded
body, the most of it being grated
on his face, neck and shoulders.
Frightfully Scalded.
1t is six weeks since Findleson and
half breed, since dead as a result Of
his wounds, We're terribly scalded by
the explosion of the boiler of small
launch. The lives of both were de-
SPARED Of but Findleson hung on, and
finally DR.. Kergan, of Port Simpson,
| came to the conclusion that his life
| could be saved and his body retain few
blemishes if human ST for grating
purposes could be secured.
DR.. Kergan issued an appeal to the
men of Port Simpson Not a man VOL
unteered in answer, and things looked
bad for the sufferer, when word of
the appeal reached the ears of the
towns fair sex.
Women Show Bravery.
Like flash the women came to the
rescue, and it is sad to relate that not
till inspired by this action, did the men
come forward and offer their flesh.
| The result was that the raw, red AMI
burning wounds of the mans face,
neck and shoulders We're covered with
the skin of the volunteers.
The work of grating was so success
full that it is reported that Findleson
will be free from Disagreement with
the exception of the tip of one ear, and
the fact that he will never again pos.
sess eyebrows.
DR.. Kergan did not spare his own
skin. When he had grated on all that
was offered by others, he barred his own
arm and stripping it of as much GU
ticle as he could stand, applied it to
the wounds of the man in his care.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-09
Keene's Confidential Man Loses Grip

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. p
George O. McMullen, confidential agent
for J. r. Keene, has reported to the
police the mysterious theft of a Vailse
containing $4,000 in bonds and other
valuable papers. The robbery took
place Monday, but McMullen declines
to give the time or place
McMullen says he came to this city
on important business and VISITED
many places. In the evening he dis
covered the loss of the valise. He says
he cannot tell what other papers he
had. The stolen bonds are part OF an
issue by the North Shore railway, the
short line running north from this
city. The whole affair is shrouded IN
mystery.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-09
Dinner to Governor-EIect Stokes.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. Sat
the Union League club tonight Judge
E. Amber Armstrong, of Camden, VIII
give a dinner in honor of Governor
elect Stokes. In addition to the gov
ernor- elect the guests will mclude
number of men prominent in the po-
litical affairs of New Jersey.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-16
Placid Indifference of the Korean.

While Japan and Russia dispute as to their re-
spective rights in and to Korea, Korea as a nation
looks on with absolute Indifference. Of its 12,OOO,-
900 inhabitants, it is doubtful if more than a few
hundred thousand have ever heard of the dis
pute. Certainly the two hundred thousand in
Seoul display no interest in it. They pursue the
even tenor of their way as though nothing what
ever was going on that concerned them in the
least. But this is the way the Korean takes every
thing.
Seoul has telephones and telegraphs; American
missionaries have established one school and two
hospitals there; Americans have also extended
their little street railway to the river-port of
Riong-San, a distance of three miles, and are en-
larging their electric light plant so that it may
be used for lighting; the Seoul-Fusan Railway
is being pushed rapidly along by the japanese,
and the French are making slow progress with the
Seoul Wiju line. All this, like the portents of
war, leave the Korean absolutely untouched
Golfers Weekly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-16
We Have Quilted Cuba.

The last of the American troops has departed
the shores of Cuba and the. last vestige of the
American occupation has disappeared. President
Palma, of the new republic, did we'll to say in bid
ding farewell to the commanders of the troops:
"This new consideration shown us, together with
the services we have previously received at their
hands, will bind the Cuban people to the American
people forever in a strong tie of sincere graft
tude." 1t is not amiss that it should. Whatever
the object of some of the promoters in this coun-
try of the war upon Spain, it is beyond doubt that
the great mass of those who favored it were ami
mated by the highest sentiments of humanity to-
ward the oppressed and suffering colonists. For
their sakes this country went to war with a power
against which it had no grievance of it's own, gave
up the lives of its men, spent it's treasure, and set
the bondmen free. If it had then annexed Cuba
its motives could have been challenged, but it did
not. 1t was not a war of~conquest, though terri
torial acquisition resulted in Porto Rico, a self
supporting dependency, and in the Philippine Is
lands, an unspeakable burden. Yes, the American
dealing with Cuba has been in the highest degree
creditable. We have lost much, have gained moth
ing of value. But we have taken the heel of the
oppressor off the neck of a people, and are enti-
tied to their gratitude and to their appreciation
of good conscience.-Charlotte Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-16

These proposals, the "high Japanese authority"
adds. were rejected by Russia, which offered a
counter-proposition emitting all reference to
Manchuria, and providing for the establishment
of a neutral zone in north Korea, which would
include about onethird of the kingdom This
nroposition Japan, in it's turn, rejected.
Round these seemingly simple questions the
Diplomatic fight has ragged. Seemingly simple
they are, but in fact very far from it, for they
serve only as definite points for argument IN the
greater questions which, although hardly put into
words by the two parties to the dispute, are yet
recognized by all the world as the real questions
at issue: Shall Russia maintain and strengthen
it's grip in the East until it has permanent con-
troll Of ice-free ports and the of the
Orient? Shall Japan maintain the freedom OF
opportunities on the neutrality-suspicious.
primarily for itself, which are necessary for its
development, perhaps for its very existence; sec
ondarily for other commercial nations TYouth's
Companion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-16
The Far East The Matter at Issue.

Nothing which the daily papers have recently
laid before their readers has been read more fully
and studied more carefully than the reports of ne
gotiations between Russia and Japan
What were the proposals and how were they re-
ceived? These are questions which even the best
Informed have found it hard to answer with intel
lgent defniteness. But a semioficial summary
of the propositions of Japan has been given to
the press, and as no criticism of the statement has
been made by Russia, it may be taken as accurate.
The proposals were these:
1. That both Russia and Japan should respect
the independence and territorial integrity of
China and Korea.
2. That they should respectively recognize, ia
pan the special interests of Russia in Manchuria,
Russia the special interests of Japan in Korea.
3. That they should mutually engage not to
infringe, Japan the commercial rights and immu-
mites acquired by Russia in Korea, Russia the
commercial rights and immunitiss acquired by ia
pan in Hanehuria.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-16
HOLDING COTTON.
The Little that is Left to be Protected from the
Squeeze.

New Orleans, Feb. 1.-THE appeal made by the
New Orleans cotton merchants to the dealers and
farmers of the South to hold their cotton just
now against the depression caused by the Russo
Japanese war has met with many favorable re-
sponses. The following resolution is being adopt
ed by the cotton growers throughout Misslsslpp1:
"Resolved, That we unanimously endorse the
action of New Orleans and Memphis cotton ex-
changes in holding cotton, and while not more
than five per cent of the staple remains IN this
section we will take care of all that is offered and
put none of it on the market until cotton regains
it's relative value"
In Louisiana the banks of smaller towns posted
notices to merchants and planters in their terri
tory that they were prepared to make liberal adj
vances upon cotton and to carry all the cotton I'M
sold until such time as the squeeze should end.
The disposition seems to be general with the
Southern cotton interests to cooperate and pre-
vent the sacrifice of cotton at the present prices.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-16
Death of Senator Hanna.

AS we go to press, we are informed that Sena-
tor Marcus A. Hanna, of Ohio, has just died
of typhoid fever, aged 81 years. His death
removes one of the most commanding figures in
our public affairs and will be learned with surprise
and regret throughout the country. Senator Han
ma was National Republican Chairman in 1896
and did a great deal to effect the election of Nc
Kinley. In 1897 he succeeded John Sherman in
the United States Senate, since which time he
has welded greater political power than perhaps
any other man Except the Presidency in the coun-
try. While improbable, it is not impossible that
ne would have been nominated by the Republicans
for President this year and elected, had he lived.