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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-01-27
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that villa go esda s. nbo ut noon. N the
ts Str suddenly Witl'iearts failure while
walking along tile street, and Sdi With
out over, egaining consc .f \, q y
sudden deatl vas * !, U,
aa a.fta lat death was 50 near
at8hand leaves Wife but no. chill chill
III ie funeral took place \, \: Aeeomas
was tho bro her of Mrs. r. wort OF
aa Haster sore
r Grizzle. a
os iSpHaif' GAP al an William
tie liomeso { lis daug 1tarS Mrs yampler.
els9tS
s tst1 ut membar 8 thoS$ Baptlsts Church
itesiLsilil Dor Of yea rs:
K 4 M osiah Jollif
4 (speaial The Tlnes p lspatch.)
ft SsI sv ss ne 5 oTtal
pastor. Of l.ssWrigh N elnorla 81 MI thodist.
sEpiscopalS Church, d ed ut tlle homEso his
son ;lt 80 O clock this m orllin II
NoTfoik
week III lad resi- dedS here. IIe had ched
the advanced sngee 81 geighty-six years and
was highly we; survives
funeral servl eI e {; ~ ucted
from the old homo at Great Brld &c to-
morrow. morning il O. clock. ana inter- S!
ment will be in the Bfamil hurylng
sB. IA dams
sS! (Spec,al to Tho Times Dispat ch.) 8&i
T 4 II Na1n Taesaay. Is
S. ss;.sRallway. Wakefield I,od SO. 4. O. @;
!. sent To- delegation to attend the run
n ntrlt momber.
S@$ Mrs. Lucy Nelson Howard.
(. Il N Especial TO The Times DIsputch.)
VI NI5WTo m ND wis. On s6, Mrs.
Lucy Nelson Howard died Mt her home
Grafton York county t M rs 5i ! ware
mil 'h health for some time She was tho
daughter OF the late Thomas I. Nelson.
owner OF the FAM GUS York mansion, W az
to ornvaTih and ii' m nom Of one 81 the
oldest Virgin Ia ia miles z. AS
Josiah BrightWell
Special to The Times Dispatch !,
tBrightwell,5 ono of tho best known citiz IS
nlDGrlHIlu N,cll b N'S'
aged eighty-elght Years. 4 He q had beer,
confined to his bod for ono month, I, q. Flo
leaves IN age vi dow and three children y
Funeral services and burial Tomorrow q
the homo, near Cumberland Courthouse.
John H. Lemoine.
Especial to The Times plspatch.??
WARSAW, " a., Jan. 2i--Last night at
10 O'clock MI John as. LeR,oIne, ofu,IIrog J,
Of two weeks. Flo was agpronlnent It'll,
zen and merchant. and was a. g1ll ltnt on
Confederate soldier, having served Win
distinction IN Company ,B, Fortieth VIZ
w. It. Hawkins.
Especial to Tho 'rmes-p Dispatch
h PETERSBURG, VA, Jan, 26.--Nlr; VIII
liam ~. Hawkins, died at his home IN !, ~
kins was IL moulder,8 by trade. Hoa Wa l:'
his wife and one child, 81 V
Mr., Murlkland Buried,
Especial to The Times Dspatch.) y i
q lrAIsNlVIIL4F, VA. Jan. 1.-The re-
mains Of Sidney r. AIurkl and, aged sixty,
i've Years, were brought here to DAY ana
Inferred In the Farmyille Cemetery py
the side OF his wife. who died some years
4 Mr., Murkland was found dead at bis
neighbors, He lived alone, He was once
a prominent dry goods merchant of FARM
VILE hut removed to LynchhurE twenty
one years ago, He had accumulated, u IS
said, consd money ana etlred from
active business, # 6
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7 49, A FSvSYY ~
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-01-27

ton Of which he was accused, was had
before he became mana ger Of tho Rich
.mond store, and tina t he cannot i be held ia
liable therefor. The higher court ad y
Judges q. c. Ostronder not guilty and
orders u that he be acquitted and md z Il dis,
charged. .IS:3 @ IA. sjs .s sit5 i
The case Of Grail VS.. the Common
wealth presents an identlca11y NJ similar
case as to this plaintiff In error, and the
court sustains the Judgment 3of tile Cir-.
cult Court OF Chesterfield county. re XXI
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-01-27

Especial Ito The ~ I'm es- Dispat cll:l 4ts.
sd OSBORN'S& CsAP, VI an.s 26:7---Nvi liam
rizzle, ged d DO sever died ,iat
itheSlones E his ID Jug lite Mrs. VampleI,
Dickenson county 8; frs & i rea surer at the
May elect lon SS0. had BEEN con-
sistert tnember9 D s. tlloS$ Baptls y Church
for tesilsrp 4, Dor 81: ea r.:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
LAND IS BOOMING
 IN THE FAR WEST
THERE IS ALSO A CRAZE FOR BANK ExTENSlON-DAN OF THE SITUATION POINTED OUT. WILD INITIATION.

Kansas City QMo) Letter to New York
 Evening Post.
 Is the middle west getting ready for another and a wider boom? This question is asked oftener than any other among business men just now. They do not refer particularly to the building or houses go- ing on in every town and hamlet nor to the improvements being made In both dwellings and store properties everywhere west of the Missouri. There are practi- cally no ''additions'' being laid out, and the town lot promoter has met with little encouragement. The expansion is In other directions It is affecting farm land reach ing out to the very foothills of the Rock ies and is but an ascending scale of the movement toward higher prices that has been going on for three years.
 Two grand divisions comprise the move ment. One Is in the farther portion of the Well-proyed agricultural section-central Kansas, central Nebraska and the eastern half of the Dakotas. Here lands are well improved; they have good records for productiveness. For three years they have increased in value 20 per cent year. It is no uncommon thing for lands l5O
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miles west of the Missouri to sell for $50
 an acre. The same lands could have been bought three years ago for 80. Land agents have done more business in the past six months than in the first three years of this decade. Men have become
 rich buying and selling. Everybody talks land and is anxious to speculate.
 But this is not circumstance to the movement of lands in the semi-ard region i lying west of the sixth principal meridian and reaching out to the foothills of the
 mountains. Thousands of speculators are | trying to make fortunes out of the | prairies. The towns are filled with land seekers and landsellers. Six columns of bargains in land appear in one Wichita | paper. They are wheat lands, alfalfa | lands ranch lands Some will raise crops. | some will not Wheat has made the people wild over the possibilities. and they are | putting up prices to the old poom-time | figure
 | Quarter sections that sold three years | ago for $500 now bring 5000 Buyers in
 the older settled sections 200 miles fur | ther east are buying great deal of it., | hoping to sell at further advance. Lands | are sold on the installment plan, ten pay ments by the railroads; individuals sell 1 on time. Of course, hundreds of buyers | come well prepared to invest and pay 1 cash. They are mostly from the states of Illinois, Iowa and further east They 1 do not know much about farming in the ] land where rainfall Is deficient. They pay | the large prices because they seem rela- l lively small to them. To those who bought 1 the lands cheap, the income is munideent; | to those, who buy at the inflated values, | the income must be only mediocre,
 1 Along with the land boom is going a
 bank boom. Said a central Kansas bank l CT the other day: "Everybody seems to | have the idea that fortunes are to be made in banking The fact is that no one
 has grown rich in tho middle west out of
 banking alone. There are rich bankers,
 hut they have made it ont of specula- tions of one sort or another Banking
 itself returns only moderate salaries and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
A MAN ENJOYS. AN NOUTING
 FOR VERY LITTLE MONEY

It surmounts an edifice that stands on
 the site of church that was erected in
 the early days of the Revolutionary war and was burned by the British. Some of
 its members were American soldiers in
 that war. The present structure wss
 built at the close of the war, and services
 are held there every Sunday. The spire is a replica of the one that was caught up by great storm that
 swept over New Jersey a few years ago and was hurled down into the street and smashed.
 A few yards distant is a building that stands on the site of the first Princeton | university. If you have lived in New
 York for a generation you may know
 this, but it is news to newcomers that except in Princeton.
 If you are weary you take a car and ride up through the business center of old Elizabeth and then get off and wander a while through old streets laid out be- fore you were born, even if you are four score. This costs you another nickel A trolley line to Reward whrls you along a thoroughfare lined on either side by modern homes and we'll kept lawns and under. the branches of great trees, out by farm lands and over bridges be- heath which a river breaks over a rocky bed on It's way to the Passaic. You cross railroad trunk lines you see fields of grain, you inhale the perfume of bloom, and in the distance you get a glimpse of lower New York and the bay. When you reach Newark, the main street of which is as crowded as any thorough
 fare in the metropolis, you have spent two nickels.
 In boarding a car for Hoboken you have in the center of Newark passed by a park which is famous, It contains many statues of men who wore noted in let ters, art and war.
 On the way from Newark to Hoboxen you get views of greet factories; peace full villages dot the distant hills; rail- road trains wind about curves odors stihe and siclxen and on either side, To, the expansive Jersey marshes, the breed | ing place of the curse of humanity, which science is endeavoring to abate. This bit of scenery is well night call culated to make the afternoon pilgrim wish he had gone elsewhere. And yet | there travel across these marshes of slime and malaria every day in the year more than a million people, going to the metropolis or returning from it. | The trip from Newark to Hoboken has | boken to the city three cents.
 | Nowhere else on this continent can one make such a journey for the money.
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dividends when all expenses, and so forth,
 are charged off. Yet new banks by the
 score are being started. Every town of
 1000 people has, perhaps, two; scores of
 towns with only 300 people have a bank.
 Farmers think it gives them prestige to
 be bankers. On capital of s10,000 deposits
 and loans of s7b,0O0 to sl50,000 are car
 ried. What will happen when there comes need for money? How long will it take to wipe out the bank?"
 In the northwest, similar conditions ex- ist in the newer portion of the states.
 The manager of well known financial publication, just returned from a trip | through the Dakotas, says: North Da- kota will reap a blG crop of wheat, and | it will also harvest the largest crop of | farm mortgages ever gathered in any l country The northern part of North Da- kota. and particularly that portion com prising the newer country, has gone farm | loan mad. The butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker have gone into the | farm-mortgage business. The magic words | Money to loan are with you wherever you go. An avalanche of new banks has swooped down upon the people which | bodes no good for the communities. Ev- cry little hamlet has one or more. which | must in a great measure depend on farm | loans for their sustenance, and dividends. Tn seven cases out of ten the name l bank is misnomer. The bankers are | composed of 20 per cent legitimate bank
 CTS: GO per cent land boomers; 20 per cent | amateurs. The second class should call | themselves real estate agents. They are | infationists of land values. and their | loans placed in the east will need close | inyestigaton if there ls to be avoidance | of the experience that followed the boom | of the sos.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
BOOK REVIEWS.

"Boy Soldiers of the Confederacy," by Susan R. Hull. Neale Publishing com puny
 Boy Soldiers of the Confectionery is ar interesting history of the youngest of those who fought for the continuance of tho Confederacy, compiled by Susan R.. Hull It was the first intention of the author to include all the boys on both sides under twenty. but the list was too long. And so the .ecord is of those Con- federates between the ages of Il and IS. The story of the boys of the Confederacy never will be fully told; too many died unknown too many, when the war was over, went back to their homes to live obscure lives. But frs. Hull has gathered within the pages of this book all that she has found of those brave children, of whom 1t was said that with such an army Lee could whip the world"
 ''The Noahs Afioat,' by H. Req Wood man. Neale Publishing company,
 In making of historical romances there seems no end--no heros fame is exempt from literary taxation. as 1t were. And now after man., thousands of years of undisturbed dignity. Noah himself is drag ged into Twentieth century life as the hero of a romanuc novel. If, from some distance star, he has felt hurt that mo- body has mads literary use of his mar vicious experience, he can congratulate himself on the richness and completeness of the amends in "The Noahs Afioat.' The famous old admiral could not desire 9 more generous and intelligent interpre- tation of his character and career.
 The author grows enthusiastic over the great old navigator: What man he looked" she exclaims admlringly, sitting there on a nail keg. among the brilliant birds with their gleaming yellows and scarlets. in his oldr alpaca coat, torn and stained. a rusty lock in one hand. a broken handled screw-driver fin the other speaking words of ripest wisdom to his stalwart sons-philosopher. statesman and father--without. the houndless waters. the waste of destruction and death-within eager life pulsating in halieujah oi preservation--ah what man he looked. T
 The reader will be charmed with the wealth of satire. nonsense and pure fun which the author has so delightfully."- blended
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From the New York Sun.
 This is an account of what a man saw for eight nickels and three cents on Saturday afternoon;
 Down the Bay on the upper deck or Staten Island ferryboat the panorama in- cIuded the skyscraper aggregation on the lower end of Manhatten the Brookiyh and East River bridges, Castle Williams pn Governors Island, glimpse of Green wood cemetery and Brooklyn Heights, Erie Basin and the foliage of Bay Ridge. the Narrows the gateway to the sea, and a battleship and a crusier off Tomp- kinsville This cost a nickel.
 trolley car at the ferryhouse carried the traveller to the Elizabethport fer ry, showing him on the way portions of Staten Island, containing old Dutch set dement's modern homes, soping lawns, ancient trees. acres of vines and farm lands, shipyards, Sailors Snug harbor, the Kill von Kull. Bayonne and the meadows beyond. This little journey con- sumed a>Shalf hour and cost another rickel.
 An able bodied man could nearly throw a stone across the kill that divides the island from Elizabethport, and the time of the voyage by fcrryboat is less than ten minutes. This costs another nickel But it is worth the money.
 You have seen noted shipyard, and n railroad bridge that was the result of . fantastic dream of a railroad company when it was trying to break into New York. Through the draws of this bridge you have seen a coal fleet passing on its way to Perth Amboy.
 Leaving the ferryboat at Elizabethport you walk. if you wish, through street which was a military road in the days of the Revolutionary war. If you con- tinue this walk for half hour you reach a little park that looks like the campus of New England college.
 Here you rest beneath tree that Is older than any of the old buildings, and you can throw the stump of your cigar against two ancient cannon that thun- dered in a famous war. Somebody will tell you that near this site Washing toms troops bivouacked. Whether they did bivouac here may be a question: but certain 1t is they passed this way and fought the British.
 Continuing your stroll you come under the shadow of church steeple quite dif- ferent from the church steeples that are built in this generation. It shoots up from the ground like a clear cut mast. It is slender and graceful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
The Equitable.

Interest in waning in the Equitable fight so far as Wall street is concerned although the multitudes appear to be as hungry as ever for disgusting details or insurance graft. Tn the street the peo- pie yawn when the subject Is brought up and are trying make themselves be- leve the fight has been removed en- tirely from the realm of finance into an arena of morals and acadamic discus. sion. A peculiarity of Wall street IS tna. once the curtain has been drawn pack from a mystery, interest and curiosity very soon ceases. If there is any one thing Wall street will not stand TOT IL is financial mystery. Once let the finger of suspicion be pointed to any given subject and it can neevr be removed until the fullest light of publicity IS turned ofl All the rotten spots ana gangrene manifestations must be ex- posed in the fullest sense. The worst must be known, but the agony once over the street turns its attention in stantly to other things. It is looking ever into the future
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
Limit.

From the Detroit Tribune.
 Gunner-They say Cogg is an automo- bile f1end.
 Guyer-And so he Is. Sleeps in his goe- gles and has gasoline sprinkled on his pillow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
Fibs for Pay.

From the Chicago Journal.
 DO you--er--ever tell fibsg' asked the lady who had advertised for maid. Not for myself ma'am,' answered the applicant. "only for the mlssus."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

The street is reliably informed that Great Northern is earning at the rate or 15 per cent net; Northern Pacihc ls per cent net, and Burlington 16 per cent net These roads comprise what is known as the "Hill System, and in combination represent about twenty thousand miles or main track These earnings are nearly double the figures of four years ago, and the market bulls profess to believe that there is still room for a very important increase in net results. If these reports be true, and there appears to be no reason for diserediting them. a new uprising on the part of the northwestern freight pay CTS may be looked for soon. The peo- pie who foot the bills will be demanding a share of the enormous earnings In the form of reduced rates, and they will not be content until they get what they want. The only avenue of escape for MT. Hali and his associates would appear 10 pc further increase in capitalization, put that is an old gag and the farmers are acuuainted with 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
The MaIden's First Beau.

their complacency by the thought s.wa the game worth the candle?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09


 The attention of spectators is about evenly divided these days between stocks grain and cotton. It is something like a three-ring circus. Grain is almost al- ways nervous and excited at this time of the year when the crop outcome IS more or less of an uncertainty. Specula- ton in cotton has increased amazingly within the last three or four seasons ustil now it engrosses the time and tal- ents of a large army of operators, many of whom have abandoned stocks entirely for the farscinations of the play in the textile commodity. The life of cotton trader is certainly never monotonous however improbable 1t may be to those who are not fortunate in guessing the right side.
 The investors of the United States have absorbed, during the last year, about 25o,- 100000 in the bonds of foreign nations, Japan leading off as a hot favorte. This circumstance of itself Is sufficient to account for the disappearance of the large trade balance in our favor. It Is new thing for the Unted States to buy the obligations of foreign countries. or tor that matter to take any interest in any securities issued abroad or late, however. the wealth of the country has grown so fast that investors are reach ing out over the map of the whole world. The acquisition of the Philippines has widened our horizon a good deal. Incl dentally, too, the rapid development of our foreign commerce has broadened the vision of Uncle Sam until now he can take in the entire globe without straining his eyesight.
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The street is kept ever on the anxious seat by persistent talk of the President 5 intentions touching rate legislation. One day it blows hot and the next day it blows cold from the seat of government, regardless of it's geographical location oyster Bay, Washington, in the saddle oi on the bounding pillows. The President restlessness reminds an old Wall street cynic of the story of the maiden's first beau. .,
 What shall I do to entertain hiinY she anxiously inquired of her mother
 .'Oh just be animated. Jump around and be lively. Show Jack you have somt spirit''
 When the swain called that evening he was electrified and amazed to see the young lady break from her seat by ms side leap over the rockingchair swing from the chandelier. do the cake walk down the side of the room, slide along the mantlepiece, turn a hand spring. try to climb the wall, and do other dizzy stunts. =
 What on earth's the matter, Nary he finally managed to articulate. What are you doing? Have you gone crazy?
 why. I'm animated. Mother told me I must jump around and be lively" re sponded the maiden as she paused in her wild flight over the top of the piano.
 "That's all right" replied the youth. ..but you just light somewhere and we'll get acquainted. I'm no sparrow; can fly"
 mess people feel toward the President" :" continued the cynic. They would like to have him light somewhere so they could get acquainted with the man Tn re- pose A continuous contortionist per formance eventually gets on to your nerves.''
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-16
THREE JURORS R
or Cholera Morbus with One Small
Bottle Of Chamberlain Collie, choi.
era snd 0larrhoea Remedy.

G. w. Fowler Of Hightower. Ala.
relates AN experience lie had while
serving on a petit jury In a murder
CASE at Ef~wardsville. county seat Of
Clebourne county, Alabama. He says:
Willie there | ate SOME fresh meat
and some souse meat and 1t gave me
cholera mSrhus In a very severe form.
! was v more sick In my life and
sent to- THE drug store for a certain
cholera mixture, but the druggist sent
a bottle Of Chamberl4in's Colic,
Cholera and Uarrhoea remedy instead,
saying that lie had what | sent for, bgt
that this medicine was so much better
he would rather send 1t to- me In the
fix / WIS in. ! took one dose Of it
and Was better in five minutes. Thu
second dose cured me entisely. Two
fellow jurors were afflicted In the
same manner and one small bottle cur
ed thee three OF u.s." For sale by all
druggists
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-16
ON A or SLAYER

Fred Huber OF the mounted police,
accompanied by another member OF
that organization, is now In the ,'Lm.
ity OF Duran following up a valuable
clue as to the identity of the mar who
murdered Juan ,Armente ut Duran
carly last Tuesday morning. The
murder was n Of the most brutal
ever committed In New Mexico. Ar
mente was an old man, a veteran Of
the civil war and a comrade OF Kit
Carson. He was killed by being struck
on the head with a blunt instrument
at about . o'clock In the morning. It
Is supposed the deed was done for the
purpose Of rObbing the old man Of 500
he had on his person. The funeral Of
the old man took place In Santa Fe,
under the auspices Of the grand army
post Of that town.