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The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
ELDRIDGE SHOWS PAPERS
He Thinks They Are the Best Evil
dence of the Truth of the State
ment Made by Him.

New York, Dec. S.-Vice-President
George D. Eldridge was shown the pub
lished denial OF Col. w. H. Phelps of
having received $500 for obtaining a
license for the Mutual Reserve Life In
surance Co. to do business in Missouri,
and responded:
so Col. Bill has been saying things,
has he? Well, here is the best answer
l can make to his words" and he pro-
duced the following written on the pa
per of the law department of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway Co.:
II inclose bill for legal service. Kind
ly send draft for the amount and oblige.
Yours truly, "W. H. PHELPS"
The attached bill simply read, ITO
legal services, $4,000" The nature of
the services was not specified.
Attached to this was the company's
warrant for $500, and it is stamped
paid" With these papers was also
the company's check, dated August 2,
1898. on the Merchants Exchange ma
tional bank, drawn to the order of w.
H. Phelps, for $500, signed by George
d. Eldridge and J. w. Bowden, and
countersigned by George w. Harper,
treasurer. Endorsed upon the check is
the name "W. H. Phelps" and the
stamp showed it to have been cleared
through the Continental national bank
of st. Louis.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
ASSASSINATED BY A WOMAN
Lieut.-Gen. Shot Down and
Instantly Killed in the House of
the Governor of SaratOff.

London, Dec. THE st. Petersburg
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph,
in a dispatch dated December 5, sent by
way of Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, says:
"Lieut.-Gen. Sakharoff, former min
lister of war, has been assassinated:
1.-THE government had deputed Gen.
Sakharoff to visit the province of Sara
toff for the purpose of quelling the
agrarian riots there.
ga woman belonging to the so-called
flying columns of the revolutionary
movement, called at the house Of the
governor of Saratoff and asked to see
Gen. Sakharoff. She fired three revol-
yer shots at the general, killing him on
the spot"
When the tidings reached st. Peters
burg, Count Witte charged Lieut.-Gen.
Rudiger, minister of war, with the task
Of breaking the news to Madame SAX
haroff.
The event has created a profound i'm
preston in st. Petersburg owing to
fears that the revolutionists here will
follow the example thus set.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
The Omnipresent Camera.

Photography enters into so many
phases of life nowadays that it hardly
seems possible to keep house withoutlt
Abiding to this subject the Chatterer
of the Boston Herald mentions the part
AZ PLAYS in a British royal family: Just
before the prince and princess of Wales
left England on the tour in India they
had photographs taken of all their
children and relatives, besides a number
of interiors from Marlborough house
and York cottage, Sandringham, and
these pictures will be disposed about the
royal staterooms of the Renown. 1t
was a pretty idea, sowing how truly the
camera ministers to the homesick alb
sentee, but not only do the parents of the
six little Wales carry away their Sep
TENDER and October photos, but every
month later ones will be sent to India
to show just how much the family has
grown! The princess is a fond NAM
ma, and, according to London gossip, it
has been a great trial to her to make
this trip. 1t was first proposed to take
along one of the children, but fear of
sickness finally decided the matter for
the mother. Each day the cable will
bring a message to the elder children,
and each day there will be cabled a re-
port from the nurseries of York cottage
to the prince and princess. So there you
are"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
Published Weekly.
Reform in Football.

People who have seen football
played as it should be played Will
not admit that this highly interesting
game deserves all the odium under
which it suffers at present. At its
best it develops strength, courage, agil-
ity and resourcefulness as perhaps no
other sport does, and this without any
great menace to life and limb. Every
one who has watched the practice OF
teams and their contests through sew
eral seasons, when there was no pro
fesslonalism" among the trainers ana
the trained, and no employment OF
slugging as an art, will indorse this
Judgment. Accidents, of course, were
always possible, and so was rough
ness. But very few accidents occurred
that were at all serious to a strong,
healthy boy, and the roughness was
due to the excitement of the moment,
and was checked as soon as 1t ap-
peared. However, lovers of the game
dlO DuI SOICll oh Lie
While they might like to dwell upon
its good points, the public reads
about players who have had their legs
and ribs broken or who have even lost
their lives on the football field, as II
might read about brutal crimes. Inc
chronicles of the press are open 10
all, and actually reach the largest pos
sible circle. There is besides mucn
discussion of the game in magazines,
which reveals repellent features that
are of quite recent origin. Mingled
with the young gentlemen who make
it an incident of their college life are
others for whom there has been COM
petition among the colleges. 1hey
are appraised as football players only,
and with them the college is the in
cident. The coaching degenerates at
times into straightout professional
ism, and the play is disgraced by a
calculating brutality worthy a gang
of thugs. Upon such an ~indisputable
assertion OF facts 1t is perfectly cledf'
saws the Chicago Record-Herald, that
there must be a radical reform IN the
style of the game to save it from
an almost universal condemnation, and
to Justify it's continuance. Such a
conference as that which was held
with President Roosevelt and such
comment as has come from college pres
idents emphasize the need of a really
effective change. And this is by no
means an unattainable thing. why
should the smuggling and the profess
sionalism ever have been tolerated?
Why cannot college authorities COM
pel notifications in many respects
that will give true sport instead OF
thuggery? The game can certainly
be made right if those who nave the
power will insist on the necessary con-
ditiOnS.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
SCIENCE.

The alpha rays of radium have been
found by Prof. Rutherford to have one
eleventh as great velocity as light.
A giant pig, with a skull measuring
nearly a yard long, has been found
among the later tertiary deposits of
Nebraska in fossilized remains. 1t
has been christened Dinochoerus brol-
landi.
The newest smoke absorber is a
filter of coke saturated with petroleum.
The SCOT is caught by the coke and
subsequently used as fuel, while the
gases are rendered infiammable by
the petroleum vapors.>
Some minerals, such as diamonds,
give out light when rubbed together.
Sir William Cookies says that he has
prepared an artificial sulphide of zinc
which is more luminescent under fric-
ton than any natural mineral.
Since the final products of the per-
feet combustion of any fuel are water
and carbon dioxide, neither of which
constitutes or makes smoke, the exist
ence of smoke is proof of the imper-
feet burning of whatever substance is
consumed for heat or power.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
THE GREAT JUMP IN COTTON
The Present Outlook is For Fifteen
Cents For the Staple.
Harvie Jordan, President of the Cot
ton Growers' Association, Ii Hero
Of the Cotton Trade.

New York, Dec. Cos. H. Hoadley
is the head Of the big bull pool which
is credited with having made nearly
S ,000, 900 on rise in cotton. After the
market closed he said to a reporter:
This government report means ID
cent cotton; there is no doubt OF that.
AS a matter of fact, the actual produc-
ton of the pure cotton itself is fewer
than 10000, 600 bales. These fellows
on the cotton exchange r dealing in
paper cotton now. When they come to
deliver actual cotton they will have to
pay Is cents for It,"
The Zero of the cotton trade at pres
ent, as we'll as of the entire south, Is
Harvie Jordan, president Of the Cot
ton Growers association. He it was
who organized the planters of the
south into a combination to hold their
cotton, and called them to a big con-
vention last spring in New Orleans
Mr.. Jordan then said to the planters:
"If you will but hold your cotton you
will sell it at ten cents a pound, in
stead of five cents, and the five cents is
inevitable if you do not follow this pol
ICY"
The farmers did hold their cotton
and it did sell at ten cents a pound.
Speaking of Jordan's work, q prom
inent member of the cotton exchange
said:
"Tf the growers stand together in the
fight for lucent cotton it looks as
though they would win a victory which
would give to the growers of the south
practically a permanent power to dom
mate !he worlds cotton trade"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15

An acting model of the human heart
with every detail has been made by a
French physician. The blood can be
seen coursing to and from it through
artificial arteries.
Investigation of the properties OF
mineral springs by DR.. H. Mache, oil
Vienna, seems to establish the fact
that many of them have radio-activity,
which certainly points toward radium
as one of their curative properties.
Graphology, the science of estimating
personality from the handwriting, is
proving an aid to the physician. French
medical men have found that epilepsy,
hysteria and other nervous disorders
have characteristic effects on the writ
ing, which in certain cases may even
be the only means of detecting the dis
ease.
Overcrowding of the medical profess
sion in Germany is a matter of grave
concern. There are now in the empire
29, 200 physicians, which doubles the
number found in 1876. In other words,
there is n physician in Germany for
every LOO inhabitants. In the city Of
Berlin &c per cent. of all the physicians
have an income of less than $500, and
five per cent. of the whole number do
not have a sufficient income to return
it for taxation.
DR.. Schafer, the German army sur
geon who was sent by the authorities
to study the late war in the far east
from a surgical viewpoint, says that
the Russian wounds were to a very
great extent light in character. The
most astonishing feature was the
slight effect produced by bullets which
traversed the bodies of the soldiers in
all directions. In very large numbers
OF cases bullets which from the ana
tomical position of the canals they had
produced must have touched the vital
organs not only were not fatal, but
seemed to have caused no more dis
turbance than if the tissues had been
pierced by a needle.
Distinction of our homes through
the paints employed is a new field
of investigation that promises useful
results. A number of experimenters
have shown that paints have a distinct
~germ-killing effect, and that this
varies greatly with the color and char
acter of the materials used. In some
cases powerful disease microbes laid
upon the paint were destroyed within
"a hours. Discussing the causes of
the action, DR.. A. Cartez, a French
physioiogist, finds that the materials
are more or less poisonous, but that
much depends upon the degree of dry
ness of the layer, color, illumination,
ventilation and porosity of the coat.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
REDUCED TWENTY PER CENT.
Action Taken BY the Illinois Board
of Railroad and Warehouse
Commissioners.

Springfield, ILL.,, Dec. 6.-The state
board of railroad and warehouse COM
missioners, after a conference with
Gov. Deneen, lasting three hours, an
nounced a reduction of 20 per cent.
from existing freight rates now in eff
feet in Illinois. The reduction is hori-
zontal, and applies to all ten classes OF
freight and is uniform all over the
state. The reduction is made on appl1-
cation Of the shippers associations OF
Decatur and Springfield. The Chicago
Shippers association and Peoria mer-
chants were on the petition at first, but
they were granted the reductions asked
for and withdrew. When the decision
was announced objections were made to
the reduction by Mr.. Hamblin for the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
and Mr.. Mcknight for the Wabash.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
SHERIFF RAISED THE SIEGE
Mrs. Berry Captured In Her Car
Fortress at Girnrd, Kas., After Be-
Ing Stupefed With Ammonia.

Girard. Kas., Dec. Mrs. Sarah
Berry, the crazy woman, who, armed
with a revolver, held possession of a
Frisco passenger car here since last
Friday night, denying herself every
comfort and threatening to kill the first
person who molested her, has been
captured.
The capture was made by Sheriff
Walsh, Special Detective Monohan, Of
the Frisco; Thomas and William Os-
borne. citizens here, and w. L. Petty,
of Walnut Grove, after Mrs. Berry had
been overcome with ammonia, poured
upon her through the transom of the la
dies retiring room, where she remained
a prisoner more than 100 hours. The
fumes of the terrible drug almost blind
ed the woman, and rendered her tenn
porarily ~insensible.
After her removal from the car she
al lifted into a buggy by Detective
Monohan and the sheriff, and driven to
the Jail. There restoratives were adj
ministered.
Mrs, Berry sobbed pitifully. Her
dress was torn in the struggle. She
requested Sheriff Walsh to notify her
relatives. He sent the following mes
sage, which she dictated:
Jim Reason, Tulsa, 1. T.: I am in
Girard, Kas., in hands of sheriff. Come
at once SALLY /. BERRY"
Mrs. Berry says Reason is her broth
er-in-law.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
TEN KILLED, MANY INJURED
Collision On the Union Pacific Near
Rock Springs, Wyoming.
The Overland Limited and a Freight
Came Together-The Engineer.
Who WINS at Fault, DeGd.

Omaha, Neb., Dec. S.-Ten persons
were killed and eleven train employees
and seven passengers were injured in
a collision of Overland limited passen-
ger train No. 2 on the Union Pacific, and
a freight, five miles west of Rock
Springs, Wyo., just before 2 a. m.
The limited was run into, head on,
by the freight train, and both engines
we're demolished, and the dynamo car.
mail car and dining car on the limited
were burned up. Several of the bodies
Of the dead were incinerated.
The dead are trainmen-three cooks,
two mail clerks, an electrician, an en-
gineer and a brakeman.
The passengers injured are mostly
western people.
Engineer Brink Of the freight train,
who, it is stated officially, is response
BILE for overrunning his orders, was one
of the killed. Several trains had been
badly delayed at Granger, with the re-
suit that the four passenger trains were
running close to each other. The
freight had received positive orders, it
is said, to meet all four of these trains
at Ahsay. After three had passed the
freight pulled out and met the fourth
passenger, the limited.
The track was torn up in a terrible
manner, and the cars on the flyer were
demolished and thrown from the tracks.
The flyer was running at high rate of
speed to make up an hours lost time,
and the freight was also running at
high speed to make Green River to meet
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
THIS DECISION IS FINAL
The State of Nebraska Loses the
$64e,31S That JOS. F. BARLEY Was
Convicted of Embedding.

Lincoln, Neb., Dec. THE supreme
court rendered a final decision in what
is known as the BARLEY bond case, af-
firming the ruling of the district court
Of Douglas county dismissing the suit
and releasing from liability the bonds
men of former State Treasurer Joseph
F. BARLEY.
BY the decision the state of Nebraska
loses $546,318 that BARLEY was con.
victed of ~embezzling. This was the
fourth trial of the case in the supreme
court, the decisions being alternately in
favor of the state and defendant, and
invariably remanding the case for a
new trial.
This last decision, Attorney General
Brown says, is final.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15

Pictures of incidents during Presi-
dent Roosevelt's visit to the south are
deeply interesting and suggestive. In
looking at them one is struck with
the profuse display of the American
flag. 1t was shown on nearly every
building in the towns included in the
presidents trip, and almost every
man, woman and child seemed to carry
one, waving it enthusiastically in
greeting to the distinguished guest.
The south may have a strong senti-
mental affection for the old confed-
crate banner under which it's sons
fought so bravely, but it is heartily
loyal to the stars and stripes.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
FLAT DENIAL BY
co.,. W. H. PHELPS
Missouri Lawyer Denies the State
ment Of George D. Eldredge.
HE NEVER SAW THEGENTLEMAN
Was Never Employed BY the Mutual
Reserve Insurance Co. to Secure
q License in Missouri and Nev-
err Saw That $1,000.

Carthage, Mo-. Dec. 7.-Col. w. n.
Phelps, when asked if he had anything
to say in regard to the testimony OF
George D.. Eidredge, vice-president OF
the Mutual Reserve Insurance Co. in
New York. in which the latter stated
that he (Phelps) was employed to rep
resent that company before the insur-
ance department Of Missouri in 1888,
in it's efforts to secure p license to do
business in the tate, and for which
service he had ~pr7sented a bill for 3d.
500, said:
Never Saw Eldredge.
"I never saw Mr.. Eldredge in my life,
and was never employed by his COM
pany to appear before the insurance
department of Missouri or the attorney
| general, and l never did appear before
the insurance department OF the attor-
ney general or any other officer OF Mis-
souri, in the interest of that company
in connection with the issuance Of its
license, and | never presented a bill to
that company for the sum of $500 or
any other sum-, and was never paid
SO, 500 or any other sum by that COM
pany for services rendered before the
insurance department or the attorney
! general in connection Herewith, and l
never had any conversation with Mr..
Orear or Attorney General Crow about
the granting or Withholding of the Ii
cense of the company. Eldredge, in his
testimony as published in some OF the
papers, does not give the name of the
| attorney whom he was advised to en-
ploy or who presented the bill which
called for the payment for legal serv-
ices to me, though it is possible he may
have meant to have made the statement
that I was the attorney recommended
| and employed and that I presented the
| bill for legal services, which. if he did,
Is not true.
And Even II He Had9
81 know of no reason why it would
not have been perfectly proper for me
to have been employed by that COM
! pany to have appeared before that de-
| partment in its securing it's license.
II notice that there are some very
| prominent lawyers of this state engaged
at this time In representing a leading
life insurance company before the in
| surance commissioner of this state on
| the question of it's right to do business
in Missouri, and 1 have no doubt but
they will be literally compensated for
| their services, as they should be-"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
VIM. H. THOMPSON'S ILLNESS
The Well-KnOwn st. Louis Banke1
Suffering From Return of His
Old MaIady.

st. Louis, Dec. 6.-William H.
Thompson, president of the National
Bank Of Commerce, is critically ill at
his home, 44S7 Lindell boulevard. His
condition has been growing steadily
worse for several days.
Mr.. Thompson has a serious attack of
kidney trouble, which, complicated
with his advanced age and otherwise
enfeebled condition, renders his case
critical. 1t is a return of an old NAL
conscious or comatose at intervals.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS
Charles p. Daily, a. st. Louis Saloon
keepc Arrested with $735 Worth
of Stolen Postage Stamps.

St. Louis, Dec. 7.-Charles P. DAILY,
a saloonkeeper at No. 613 Walnut street,
and a former prize fighter, was arrested
by Detectives Cremin, Mcfarland and
Callahan, who say he had a bundle con-
tanning postage stamps valued at $735.
Thirty minutes later Harry Stewart
was arrested in Days saloon, and short
ly afterwards he confessed that the
stamps which were found in Days
possession was part of the loot obtained
when the safe of the Shelbyville (Mo.)
bank was blown open last Sunday
night.
Stewart says DAILY had nothing to do
with the ~Shelbyville burglary and that
he did not know the contents of the
hundla
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
SAVINGS BANK BILL
Measure Introduced in Congress by
Representative Sapp, of Illinois,
to Promote Saving.

Washington, Dec. 6.-Representative
Snapp, of Illinois, has introduced a
poStal savings bank bill which provides
that the postmaster general is to be in
charge of a central bank in Washington,
which shall issue postal savings stamps
of small determinations and provide
stamp cards on which these may be
preserved until they aggregate one dol
lar, when postmasters shall receive
them as deposits.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
THIRTEEN LIVES WERE LOST
Steamer L%uninberE Goes Ashore on
Amherst HarbOr, Is
lands, Gulf OF st. Lawrence.

= Halifax, N. S., Dec. 6.-Thirteen
lives were lost m the wreck Of the
steamer Luninberg, which went
ashore off Amherst harbor, Magdalena
Islands. A dispatch to that effect has
been received here from Meat Cove,
near the scene of the wreck.
The steamer had a crew OF IL, and
probably carried several passengers, in
Guiding Mr.. Leslie, a member OF the
Canadian parliament and a member OF
the firm which owns the vessel.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
A BRAIN WORKER.
Must Have the Kind of Food That
Nourishes Brain.

II am a literary man whose rvo
energy is a great part of my stock in
trade, and ordinarily l have little pa
thence with breakfast foods and the
e~xtravagant claims made of them. But
/ cannot withhold my acknowledge
ment of the debt that I owe to Grape
Nuts food.
II discovered long ago that the very
bulkiness of the ordinary diet was not
calculated to give one a clear head, the
power of sustained, accurate thinking.
I always felt heavy and sluggish in
mind as well as body after eating the
ordinary meal, which diverted the
blood from the brain to the digestive
apparatus.
II tried foods easy of digestion, but
found them usually deficient in nutri-
ment. I experimental with many
breakfast foods and they, too, proved
unsatisfactory, till l reached Grape
Nuts. And then tie problem was
solved.
"Grape-Nuts agreed with me perfect
1y from the beginning, satisfying my
hunger and supplying the nutriment
that SO many other prepared foods
lack.
II had not been using it very long
before I found that / was turning out
an unusual quantity and quality of
work. Continued use has demon
strated to my entire satisfaction that
Grape-Nuts food contains all the ele-
ments needed by the brain and nerv-
Gus system of the hard working public
writer" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
book, 1.-THE Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-15
WILLIAM H. THOMPSON DEAD
The Well-Kn0wn St. Louis Banker,
and Treasures Of the LouisianA
Purchase Exposition, Dead

st. Lous, Dec. 7.-William H. Thomp-
son, president Of the National Bank OF
Commerce, treasurer Of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition, and m Of the
best-known ~financiers in the west, died
Of septic pneumonia at his home, at
7:45 Wednesday evening.
He lapsed into Inconsistencies short
ly after dawn Wednesday and never
rallied. Hope of his recovery was aban-
doned early Monday, and his daughter
and two sons remained at his bedside
during the "a hours preceding death.
Mrs. Thompson, wife of the financier,
is seriously i'll in an eastern sanitarium,
and owing to her condition she has not
been notified of her husbands death.
JWiuiam H. Thompson was born
October IL, 1880, at Huntington, Pa,
where he received a common school ed
ueation. He began as a clerk in a store
in his native town, but two years later
went to Pittsburg and served his time
as a plumbers apprentice. In 1864
h. located in St. Louis, found employ
ment at his trade, and later opened a
plumbing establishment. In 1871 he Or
gained the Missouri Lead and Oil Co.,
and was it's president until 1884, when
his connection with the National Bank
of Commerce demanded almost his en-
tire attention. From that time on he
was one of the foremost men in COM
mercial life in st. Louis. He was treas
urer of the Louisiana Purchase expo
sition, and it was his indomitable will
that did much to carry the enterprise
through.
Of rugged personality, s~andy-haired,
sandy-complexioned, granite-featured.
tall and broad, firm determination, he
was one of the breed of men whom the
world can not down, and only whom
death can conquer.l