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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
FEDERAL COURT AT ABINGDON.
Five Persons Received Penitentlary Sem
tences During the Term.

Bristol, Va, May SIN the Federal
Court at Abingdon, Va, which conven-
ed a week ago, the following persons
received sentences to serve in the Fed
eral prison at Atlanta, Ca. John john
son and James Marshall, for retailing
liquor without license, one year and one
day each; William Stanley for
postal crimes, three years John
Arthur, alias Black Hawk, for re-
failing liquor without license, one year
and one day.
Litchfeld Blanton and May A. Dow
dy, boys, were sentenced to the Indus
trial School of the Prison Association,
near Richmond.
Mollie Bowers, a hfteen-year-oid COL
ored girl, was fined for forging a mon
ey order. There were eight convictions
for illicit distilling and the same num-
Der of convictions for retailing liquor
without license. Seven persons were
adjudged not guilty by the jury.
The revenue officers say that the old
moonshiners are all passing out of ex-
istence and that most Of the persons ar
rested nowadays are young men, who
are having their first experiences with
the business of making moonshine.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
KILLED THE WRONG MAN.
Bullet AlMsd at Assailant Went Into
Crowd of Bystanders.

Pensacola, Fla, May 8.-Deputy
Sheriff Smith, of Century, reached the
city tonight having in his custody Hon.
John B. Vaughn, of that place, charged
with murder, by causing the death of a
young man, Fred Knowles, a travelling
picture enlarger.
The bullet fired by Vaughn, and which
killed Knowles, was intended for Jack
Nichols, also resident of Century.
There has been trouble between Vaughn
and Nichols for several weeks, and Sun
day they met in the Office of Justice of
the Peace Mitchell, and it was only by
the constable putting both out of the
Office that trouble was prevented, Yes
terday they met again and exchanged
blows, both finally falling to the ground,
with Nichols on top and getting decid-
edly the best of the encounter.
Vaughn succeeded in drawing his re-
volver, and when Nichols saw the wea-
pom he released his grasp and fled in the
direction of large crowd of specta-
tors. Vaughn fired the bullet pene-
trating the brain of Knowles, a by
stander, who was purchasing ticket
for Bluff Springs,
Vaughn has held many prominent po-
sitions, having represented the county
in the Legislature a number of terms.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
Death of a Good Man.

On last Monday Robert Porter, one
of TazewelPs good citizens died at his
home near Adria from a complication of
typhoid Fever and rheumatism. His
wife is now very ill with fever and one
of his sons, Jesse, has just recovered
from the same disease.
Mr.. Porter was about fifty years old
was an excellent citizen, agood man and
was held in high esteem by all who knew
him. He is survived by his wife, four
sons and three daughters. All of these
were at the home, except one daughter,
Mrs. Kate Bowls, who lives in Utah.
Funeral services were held at the
home of the deceased on Tuesday morn
ing, conducted by Rev, J.. N, Harman,
and the burial took place at the family
grave yard.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
TazeYeII Horse Market.

The third regular meeting of the Taze-
well Horse and Mule Market was held
on Tuesday, the 9Th inst. Though this
IS the busy season with the farmers
there was an excellent attendance, and
there were more and better horses on
exhibition than at the former meetings,
and the horses were in better shape.
Combination and driving horses
were mostly in demand-th is
animals suited both for driving
and saddle purposes. There were not
as many foreign buyers as were at the
former markets but there were several
here, among them Messrs. E, V. Straley
and C, R. McNutt,, of Princeton, W, w,
and ], Ham Wilson, of Radfcrd, Va.
Lewis 4 Buchanan, Steele & Son and
other local buyers were also upon the
ground and made purchases. The sales
were about as large as were those at
previous markets. In all there were
some twenty-five to thirty horses and
mules sold, ~
Local or country horse markets are
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
MRS. MAVERICKS
APPEAL REFUSED
British Foreign Office Will Not Grant
American Woman Full Pardon.
TECHICALLY UNDER LIFE SENTENCE.
Wished Complete Pardon so That She
Might Become Eligible to Testify
as a Witness in Important
Civil Actions.

Washington, May 8. 8.-Ambassador
Choate has cabled the State Depart
ment that the British foreign office has
refused to grant any further clemency
to Mrs. Florence E. Maybrick, who re-
Gently made application through the
State Department at Washington for
complete pardon.
1T appears that Mrs. Maybrick was
not granted a complete pardon, but
was released from Imprisonment upon
Eertain conditions, and she still is tech
nically under sentence. Her testimony
is regarded as very necessary in the
prosecution of a civil action OF her
mother, the Baroness Won Roques, to
recover a sum of money OIL account OF
a land transaction which is now pend
ing. and it was to make her eligible as
a witness that an application was made
to the British Government through the
State Department to grant full par
don.
The Baroness Won Roques, plaintiff
in suit against D. w. Armstrong, IN
volving large tracts of land in Virginia
and Kentucky, has arrived here from
New York, where she landed yesterday
from Havre. Mrs. Maybrick did not
accompany her, being detained in New
York by fractured knee-cap, but is
expected here Wednesday when she
and the baroness will go to Richmond to
give testimony in the suit. The hearing
of evidence for the plaintiff was trans
ferred from this city to Richmond be-
cause of questions raised by her coun'
Igel as to the admissibility of certain
letters. and which he claimed imposed
upon her an unnecessary expenditure OF
money.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
IMMENSE LOSS BY CAR FAMINE.
Loss of Hundreds of Thousands Of DOL
lars on Account Of Berries Spelling
In the Depot Express Company
Held Responsible

Charlotte, N. c., May 8.-A special
from Chrdourn, N. c., says:
There has never been anything in the
history of this State that compares with
the railroad block here. More than
5000, 900 worth Of berries have rotted at
the depot here since Monday morning.
The railroad company is at this moment
hauling carload after carload of fine,
but spoiled berries to the river, and
dumping them as so much garbage.
LOSS ESTIMATED AT $500, 900.
The loss to the truck growers of this
immediate section will be at least $780,
900. These figures seem absurd but
they are absolutely reliable.
The Fruit Growers Express Com
pany has failed to supply the refrige-
rator cars. The farmers are picking
their berries as rapidly as they can and
turning them over to the station agent
here, butthe'situation is growing worse.
The express company is held responsible
and claims for $780,, 900 damages have
been filed.
More than one hundred Northern COM
mission men are here ready and eager
to pay from SO to S. crate for the ber-
ries if they could ship them.
A UNIQUE SITUATION.
The situation is unique and interesting
Thousands of crates of the prettiest
sort of fruit are oa the yard here. The
rotting berries smell from one snd Of
the town to the other. Cars loaded
with the decaying fruit give forth juice
and steam. Ten thousand hands are at
work picking the berries.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
CORELESS APPLE is FRAUD, SAY
CRITICS
Teeth of Experts Sank Into VerltabIe
Nest of Seeds.

Nest of Seeds.
London, May 6.-The much vaunted
seedless and coreless apple, imported
from America, has been solemnly pro-
nounced fraud on the premises of
Messrs. Shearn in Tottenham Court
road.
Thursday little crowd of experts in
fruit culture met to see the closure put
upon the fierce controversy which for
months past has ragged round this fruit.
Messrs. Shearn purchased for SIS
three months ago two of the only four
alleged seedless apples which have so
far reached England.
Columns have been written about this
fruit, Never before has an agricultural
product received such boom, and or
ders for the trees have poured in from
all parts of England.
But there was an army of skeptics
who talked and wrote with never failing
energy, their sole desire being to see
the two samples possessed by Messrs,
Shearn put to the test, and those seed
less and coreless apples were undOne,
revealing just as many pips and a har-
der and larger core than most other ap-
pies have.
There was a gasp of astonishment
among the onlookers, and the comments
which were made were as heartless as
the apples had been claimed to be.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
ENGAGEMENT TO CAPT. HOBSON.
Miss GrIzelda Houston Hull to Wed For
mer Naval Officer.

New York, May 6.-Fhe engagement
of Miss Grlzelda Houston Hull, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George H..
Hull, of Tuxedo Park, N. Y, to Cap
tair Richmond Pearson Hobson, has
been anncrnced.'
On account of the recent death of
Captain Hobson's father, the wedding,
which has been set for May 25, will be
very quietly celebrated with formal in.
vitations or announcements at the home
of the brides parents in Tuxedo. Only
relatives and few intimate friends will
be present.
Miss Hull is grand-niece of former
Governor Houston, of Alabama,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
POLITICS In
TOWN ELECTION
The Democrats of Town Of TazeWell
Introduce Politics For the First
Time in a Town Election
Here.

Ever since the town of Tazewell has
been incorporated it has been controlled
by non-partisan council. For some
years the Republicans have had ma
iority of voters in the town, but they
have never thought it wise to introduce
politics into the town elections, and
have given their support to ticket
nominated by mass meeting composed
of citizens of all parties. Up to the
present time the leading men of both
political parties have thought it best to
have a non-partisan management of our
municipal affairs. This year our Demo-
cratic friends appear to be hungry for
something, that they may call their
own. They discovered that more Dem
ocratic voters had paid their poll tax in
time than had Republicans. A meeting
of Democrats was called and held in the
town hall last Saturday night and the
following ticket for town officers and
council was nominated
E.. V. Spots, for mayor; 7. A. Re-
pass, Jr., for Recorder; and G. W. st.
Clair, Henry Hampton, ]. T. Heldreth,
Alex. St. Clair, ]. H. Crockett and j.
w. Chapman for councilmen.
1t is not likely that there will be any
opposition ticket and the town will for
the next two years, and for the first
time in it's history, be run on partisan
lines. A number of the Democrats are
not pleased with the movement, as they
are satisfied it will interfere seriously
with the progress of the town. The
Republicans are Indifferent and are
willing that the Democrats shall gather
both the thorns as well as the roses that
are sure to be gathered from their vic
tory. Two years hence the Republ-
can majority in Tazewell will be certain
to be qualified to vote and will restore
to the town a non-political government.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
TORNADO SWEEPS
MARQUETTE KAN.
Swept Path a Hundred Yards Wide
Through the City. =
MANY KILLED And MANY WOUNDED.
Death and DesOlatiOn Marked The Path of
the Storms Fury-Came Like Thief
in The Night-Business Section
Only Slightly Damaged.

Marquette, Kan, May 9.-Many per-
sons werelkilled. a score or more in
jured and part of the residence portion
of the town demolished by tornado
which struck this place at midnight.
The number of dead is estimated at
twenty, but owing to the confusion fol-
lowing the storm it will be some time
before the actual casualties are known.
The Swedish Lutheran church, the
opera house and several blocks were
wrecked and dozens of residences were
converted into scrap heaps. The busi-
ness portion of the town escaped with
slight damage.
The tornado came from the South and
made clean sweep hundred yards
wide through the entire length of the
town. The people were caught without
moments warning. Heavy rain
storms preceded the wind and after the
tornado passed a scene Of complete des-
olation followed.
The tornado broke upon the town
with great force, wrought its terrible
havoc in a few minutes and continued
on into the farming country north,
causing further damage.
In Marquette many residences were
completely moved for short distance
and then dropped to the earth.
Many victims were killed as they
slept; others, manned and bleeding,
awoke to find themselves buried in the
wrecks of their former homes.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
Prominent Tobacco Man Dead

Durham, N. c., May 8.-Washing-
ton Duke, the millionaire tobacco man.
ufacturer and founder of what is now
the American Tobacco Company, died
at his residence here this afternoon,
after protracted illness, at
the age of "a years. Some months ago
Mr.. Duke fell and broke a limb, and
since that time had been confined to his
room. His death was FASTENED by a
complication of ailments. With him
when he died were his three sons, Brod-
lie L. Duke, of Durham; j. B. Duke,
president of the American Tobacco
Company, of New York, and B. N.
Duke, also of New York.
The career of Washington Duke is re-
markable in that he and his three sons
rose from poverty to possess for
tunes estimated at several millions each
within a period of some forty years.
Beginning with the manufacture of
tobacco in a small way in the country
near Dnrham, where he was born, Mr..
Duke and his sons later established a
small factory here. This gradually
grew until it became one of the largest
cigarette manufacturing concerns in the
world, and some years ago went into
the American Tobacco Company, Mr..
]. B. Duke becoming president Of the
new company:
Mr.. Duke retired from business some
years ago on account of his advanced
age, and has spent his time at home.
He was greatly interested in Trinity
College, the Methodist institution here,
and, together with his sons, has given
it nearly million dollars. The funeral
will take place here Wednesday.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
HOME MISSION MATTER.
Mrs. Il. G. peerv. Editor.

Mies IL u CciEB EuhOi.
IN looking over an old copy of "Our
Homes" we find this little poem which
answers the question "who is my neigh
Dor" for each of US, outsiders as we'll as
home mission workers.
eff | should see
A brother languishing in some distress
And should turn and leave
Him comfortless,
When | might be
A messenger of hope and happiness
How could / ask to have what | de-
MED
In my own hour of bitterness sup
piled?
If | might sing,
A little song to cheer painting heart.
And | should seal my lips and sit apart,
Where might bring,
A bit of sunshine for life's aches and
smart.
How could hope to have my grief
relieved,
If kept silent where my brother
grieved?
And so know
That day is lost wherein l fail to lend,
A helping hand to some wayfairing
friend;
But if it show,
A burden lightened by the cheer ]
send,
Then do l hold the golden hours we'll
spent,
And lay me down to sleep in sweet
content.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
NORTH SIDE.

NORTH SIDE.
This Monument
Perpetuates the Memory
Of Those Who,
True to the Instincts Of their Birth,
Faithful to the Teachings of their
Fathers,
Constant in their Love for the State,
Died in the Performance of their Duty,
Who
Have Glorifed a Fallen Cause
By the Simple Manhood of their
Lives, the Patient Endurance of
Suffering, and the Hepoism of
Death, and who,
In the Dark Hours of Imprisonment,
in the Hopelessness of the Hos
pital, in the short, sharp ago
ny of the Field, found Sup
port and Consolation
in the Belief
that at Home they would rot be
Forgotten.
SOUTH SIDE.
Let the Stranger,
Who May ip Future Times
Read this inscription,
Recognize That These were Men,
Whom Power Could Not Corrupt,
Whom Death Could Not. Terrify,
Whom Defeat Could Not Dishonor,
and Let their Virtues Plead
for Just Judgment
of the Cause in which they Perished.
Let the South Carolinian
of Another Generation
Remember
That the State Taught Them
How to Live and How to Die.
And that from Her Broken Fortunes
She has Preserved for Her Children
the Priceless Treasure of their Memo
ries,
Teaching all who May Claim
the Same Birthright
that Truth, Courage and Patriotism
Endure Forever.
The author of these lines, Mr.. VIM.
Henry Trescott, was native of South
Carolina, and prominent both as states
man and accomplished literateur. The
monument was erected by South Caro-
lina's womanhood, whose splendor of
loyalty and self-sacrifcing devotion to
the Southern cause furnished one of the
brightest and noblest chapters in Con-
federate history. Exchange.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11

beGomIag very popular both for buyers
and breeders and sellers. We publish
in another column an article from The
Breeders Gazette which will be read
with interest by any one who is interest
ed in the success of our local horse mar
kat
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
Tomato Plants for Sale.

have nice lot of tomato plants for
sale. Price, 10 and Is cents per dozen.
Special prices on larger quantities.
Write or call on -
GEORGE NASH,
may4t3 Tazewell, Va:
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
Will Investigate Oil Fields.

Beaumont, Tex, May 8.-James A.
Garfield, commissioner of the bureau OF
corporations of the department of COM
Ynerce and labor, arrived in this city to-
dav. Mr.. Garfield will investigate con-
ditions in the fields here. His work to-
day was preliminary, paving the way
for his assistants who will conclude the
Investigations.
Mr.. Garfield left tonight for Wash
ington, having been absent eight weeks.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11
( Beautiful Inscription.

No Inscription appearing upon Con-
federate monument is more justly noted
for its beauty in phrasing and embodied
thought, than that cut into the base of
the lofty marble effgy of Southern
soldier, erected in front of the South
Carolina state capitol building at Colum-
bia. Here it is:
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-11

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TRssPAss NOTICE,

All persons are hereby wayned not to
treepass on my lands situated near Five
Oaks or on my farm known rs the ''Dl-
vide" in Tazewell county, Va, 10y hunt
ing, cutting timber or otherwise. The law
will be enforced against any persoIe who
violates this notice.
MRS. MARGARKT WHITE.
Dec. 9Th mo.
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The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30

what you please, response to a stimu-
lus, sensitiveness to environment. that
constituted at once a longing and a
prophecy of all that was to be. In that
tiny mirror is reflected the highest
achievement; there may be seen not
only the noble visage of man, but the
vague yet diviner features of Beyond
Man.
Looking at natures story we see
how supremely events may be affected
by habit of mind and tendency Of
thought. That which we would be, we
may become; and if the work is not
complete, there is at least a growth
into likeness. Optimism and pes
simism, then, appear not as mere tri-
fies of constitution like the outline of
a nose or the accent of a voice, but
definite and determinative factors in
development; arbiters of fate and mes
sengers Of destiny. The instructive
aversion to the fretful, the complain
ing, the faint heart, the discouraged,
to all the wailing multitude for whom
a check spells defeat, is justified. For
they are, by this very attitude of mind,
setting at work infinite hosts of mental
brownies to pull the world to disinte-
grafton and ruin. And the optimist, the
Cheerful Fool the man who does his
work gaily and with a.light heart, reck-
less of consequences so the work be
good, and confident that ii counts in
the sum total and event of things as a
formative power, he is in harmony
with life and with the unseen power
that set the planets in their orbits and
sways the courses of the spheres.
The gospel Of good cheer becomes in
this view something more than a tale
wherewith to soothe the nerves of
frightened children or divert the
tremors of old age from apprehended
woes. 1t is like the light that played
upon the face of the waters or
ever the world began. Belief in
the existence and persistence of the
best, in growing and becoming, and in
the immutable power of the human
unit to overcome and ascend is the
first word and the last from behind
the veil. Dependency and discourage
ment and fear and all the attendants in
the train of pessimism are simply de-
generative, destructive, paralytic. What
We will, that we are and that we
achieve. And he who holds to the un-
faltering faith that the great plan and
scheme of things is one of incessant
betterment, and that he has his grain
of sand to lift or his mountain to move
and can do it with a smile. is equal
to the gods of old. Out of his loins
will spring the progeny of a larger age.
and by his effective hope will the city
of the future be builded.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30
A PROPER ORDINANCE.

We know of no reason why the
Hackney wine room ordinance forbid
ding women to frequent saloons unless
accompanied by father or husband
should not be passed. Such argu-
ments as are made against IL are, to
our mind, specifically weak. 1t is a
fairly plain proposition that women
have no business in saloons, and that
their presence there is a source of
abuse. The best class of saloons do
not want and do not cater to them.
The whole system is of recent growth
in this country. A few years ago
either the presence of a woman in a
saloon, except in one or two of the
largest cities in the country, or the
addition of a wine room would have
created public scandal. Now the
wine room is almost as much fixture
of the place as the bar, and no one
who chances to visit one OF these
places at a late hour of the evening
will have any doubt of the uses to
which this annex is put.
We have no crusade to make against
the saloon, nor is this ordinance in
tended in that way. 1t is aimed not
at the saloon, but at the abuses which
have grown up around it. In fact,
nearly all the disrepute which is at
tached to the business of selling in
toxicating liquor is traceab1e to eva
sions or violations of the law, or
abuses such as the addition of the
wine room, engaged in at first by a few
saloonkeepers for the sake of attract
ing business or raising revenue and
weakly assented to by the rest. Moth
ing could do more to make the saloon
respectable than to cut off all these
Objectionable features. The passage of
the ordinance in question would tend
to prevent the spread of immortality,
to preserve public order and decency,
and would not injure a respectable
human being or an honest business. 1t
ought to go through the council by a
unanimous vote and to be rigidly en-
forced