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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-12

Paris, Dec IA decision was
rendered today in the divorce pro-
ceedings between Madame Rojan, the
actress and her husband, M. Porel,
manager Of the theatre. The decree
of separation was awarded husband.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-12

eminent. it is reported, does not
seemingly attach any politica'] sig
nificance to the Panther incident.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-12

Count your mercies and you dis
count your miseries.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-12

Little kindnesses come back to us
full grown.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-12
PADUCAH MAY CEASE TO ZEE
A CUSTOMS COLLEC-
TION PORT.

Washington. ID. c.. Dec. ~.
Should congress follow Secre- {
tary Shaw's recommendation
Paducah, n.y., will soon cease To !
be u customs collection port. Z
During the last fiscal yea
cost $3.50 to maintain the Office !
and not dollar of receipts came ]
in.
There are fifty-one ports of
entry which cost the government /
more to maintain than they
bring In, THEN aggregate re-
ceipts last year being $4,000 /
and their expenses $3.50, 900.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-12
THE WEATHER.

Increasing cloudincss and
probably rain tonight. Wcdnes-
day rain followed by colder.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
WoMAN's AIM WAS BAD.
General Passenger Agent Of "Katy
EIvarU po,,+a &ba Tar0a%

General Passenger Agent Of "Katy
Flyer" Route the Target.
Not since the Blair defalcation has
St. Louis society been so shocked
as by the attempt Of Mrs. Lillian
Sprague, "a society woman, to kill
George Morton, the general passen-
ger agent of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad. Mrs. Sprague fired
twice at Morton shortly after mid
night Friday in Morton's automobile
shed in the rear Of his residence.
Recently Mrs. Sprague's husband
obtained a divorce from her, naming
Morton as correspondent.
Regarding her attempt to kill Nor
ton, Mrs. Sprague says:
Il tried to force him to take me
home, and he struck me- He was
furious. I thought he intended to
murder me. AS l struggled from the
ground, remembered the pistol and
drew it. I fired twice at him. I
then ran. was crazy with pain, hui
initiation and fear
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
sEABoARD's VALUE FIXED.
State of Georgia Gets No Raise in
Findings of Arbitrators.

State of Georgia Gets No Raise in
Findings of Arbitrators.
Two boards Of arbitration made
their reports Friday to the comptrol-
Ter general of Georgia, fixing the val
uations upon which the Southern rail-
way and the Seaboard Air Line will
have to pay taxes on their property
in the state for 1905.
AS a result Of These arbitrations the
Southern railway will pay taxes on
$1,454,843 more than in 1904, while
the increase in the seaboard's valua-
ton over 1904, including the Geor
gia portion Of it's new line to Bir-
minghan, is only $470,151.
While the Southern has secured
reduction in it's assessment of 81, 038,-
900 and the seaboard was plTt down
$1,792 900, the Atlantic Coast Line,
which was the first arbitrated, had the
comptrollAr generals assessment sus-
tanned and must pay taxes on over
100000 more than in 1904
The board of arbitrators in the case
Of the Seaboard Air Line fixed the
value of that companys tangible
property in Georgia at $7956,560 and
franchise at $1,5OC,O0O, total of So
456,560.
From this finding Railroad Commits
sioner Warner Hill. representing the
state, dissents most emphatically and
is preparing dissenting opinion in
which he states his views. He will
bring out the fact that a representative
Of the railroad company swOre in the
United States court last November
that the Seaboards property in GeOT-
gia was worth $3O,1O8,OO0. Mr.. Hill
says he cannot see how a property
can be worth such an amount as this
for the purpose Of paying interest and
dividends, when It is worth only a
little more than seven millions for Che
purpose OF taxation.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
TO BOOST COTTON
Big Bull Pool Has Millions of
Ready Cash,
A GIGANTIC COMBINATION
Monled Men to Stand With Cotton
Growers Of South in Raising the
Prloe-Condition Of the Crop
Shows Decline.

Frank B. Hayne, the noted cotton
bull operator, returning to New o.
leans Sunday, after a three months
absence on the floor of the New
York cotton exchange, declared that
the bull pool now operating to raise
the price of cotton is the richest pool
ever organized in America, and is
amply able to do what it has set out
to accomplish.
Haynes statements regarding the
pool have broken the mystery which
surrounded the new aggregation which
expects to PUT cotton at the top notch
Heretofore the greatest secrecy has
been maintained regarding every de-
tall of the pools personnel and
movements, and even Mr. Hayne was
not ready to give the whole matter
to the public.
He stated, however, that the pool
was not composed of southern men,
although many New Orleans men, he
declared, are very bullish on cotton.
MIR. Hayne would not admit that he
was in the pool himself, but stated
that his ideas were in line with the
ideas of those in the deal, which
was that cotton is cheap at the pres
ent price, and that during no month of
the coming year will the staple sell
for less than 10 cents.
Hayne estimates the crop at 10,500,-
900 bales. The demand, he says, will
be enormous.
Crop Conditions Show Decline.
In it's monthly cotton crop report
Saturday the New York Journal of
Commerce makes the condition of cot
ton on September "a, as computed
from the replies of over 1000 CORE
spondents, 69.4, compared with 1874
a month ago, or a decline of points.
This compares with a condition Of
900 for the corresponding report in
1904, 67.8 in 1903 and CAT in 1902.
A three points decline is an ex.
ceedingly moderate one for Septem.
Der, the decrease for the past four
years as reported by the Journal Of
Commerce being rs in 1904, 11.8 n
1903, 6.3 in 1902 and 81 in 1901.
Moderate deterioration occurred in
all states, except in Florida and Okla
homa Territory.
Florida shows an increase Of 0.4
points to 1876, and Oklahoma an In
crease of IL to 82.7.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
PACKERS TURNED DOWN.
Lost Contention in Court Through
Judges Decision Against Their
Plea in Abatement.

At Chicago, Friday, Federal Judge
Otis ]. Humphrey sustained the de-
murrer filed by United States District
Attorney Morrison to the plea In
abatement made by packers to have
indictments for alleged restraint de-
elared void. Judge Humphrey said he
made his decision on broad grounds
without taking into consideration
technicalities which the government
advanced against the pea in abate-
ment.
It is likely that the jury for the
trial will be drawn about the middle
Of October.
After the decision had been given
the defending attorneys tried TO
amend the fourth plea by the inseR-
ton of the word for" This met
with resistance from the district at
torney, but the court promised that
if the law was clear on the point he
would allow 1t. The government Is
said to fear trick IN the insertion
of the one word. The district atto4-
ney moved that the defendants plead
TO the indictment.
One of the points in the pleading
which attracted considerable atten-
tion and which the court declared had
given him some difficulty was IN re-
gard to the right of Judge r. II.
Bethea to receive the return of the
indictment. 1t was argued by the de-
Tense that he was sitting in the east
ern division of the northern district
of Illinois and received an Indictment
voted in the northern division of The
northern district of Illinois.
The district attorney declared that
IF the law of March 81, 1905, was
construed against his contentious
there was no court, no Judge and no
return of the indictment. The court
surprised almost every one when he
read from President Roosevelts mes
sage in the Congressional Record of
last November in which it is declar-
ed that Judge Bethea was appointed
as a successor to Judge G. G. Kohl
saat, promoted from she district court
to the circuit court
This promotion gave Judge Bethea
the right to accept the return of an
indictment in the old district.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
YOUNG FoReER IN TOLLS.
Mystery of Robbery Of ss5s,oOO Worth
Of Securities Cleared Up.


BY the confession Of Henry A. Leon
ard, young clerk in. the employ Of
Hall & stieglitz at No. 80 Broad
street, New York, Monday the mys-
terry Of the recent robbery of $359,0o0
worth Of securities from the National
City bank, was cleared up.
Leonard, who lives with his par
ients at No. 56S East One Hundred
and Thirty-sixth Street was arrested
Sunday and kept in close confine-
ment while the detectives continued
their search for the missing securi-
ties, every dollar Of which was re-
covered Mondy.
The prisoner, who is only "A years
Of age, and had previously borne the
reputation Of an Industrious and
thoroughly reliable clerk, made the
astounding statement in his confess
sion that he had planned and carried
out his scneme of forgery and rob
berry, not from any criminal motive,
but solely to show by what simple
device the elaborate safeguards Of
New oYrk banks could be set at
naught. That this statement is true,
is in. a measure corroborated BY the
facts In the case, and is the belief Of
the young mans employers by whom
he was highly estimated.
Soon after the. theft Leonard mail
ed q package containing 100000 in
securities to the residence of5 Dyer
Pearl, a senior member Of thu firm
Of Pearl & Co. by whom they were
owned. The package was received BY
Mr Pearl Sunday. d r
Monday Leonard's father. turned
over to the police the remaipdeE. $780,
900, in stocks and. bonds, which, he
said, had been found hi a wardrobe
in his house Where ais Son Bsd said.
after his arrest he had secreted
them.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
DESPERATE BITES DUST.
Outlaw Smms Laid Low by Sheriff
and Deputies with Fourteen
Bullets in His Body.

Will E Simms, slayer Of Conductor
julius Landsberg of the seaboard Air
Line some six weeks ago at Ellabell,
Bryan county, Ca, and later of James
Perry, a negro, was himself shot and
killed Thursday afternoon in Liberty
county, about ten miles north of Eeul-
ing.
Simms was killed by officers Of the
Law, who had been on his track for
many hours, when they set out in puE-
suit of him on receipt of the news
that he had started in the direction Of
his old haunts in Liberty county.
These officers were Sheriff James Par
ish of Bryan county and his two dep
uties, M. A. Gibson and H. r. Dukes.
They left EIlabell and followed the
trace Of Simms as they picked 1t up
here and there, where he had stopped
On his way
About two hours after Simms had
departed from a negro's house, Wed
nesday evening, where he had killed
small pig, and had it roasted for
him, the officers arrived. They took a
rest then for the night, and early
Thursday morning were astir. Then
they found a bed in a haystack, just
100 yards from where they had slept
It was there Simms had slept, but he
had got a good start, being up earlier
than they.
To the Canoochee river they traced
simms. and there lost his track for a
time, but presently met A. Fraburn,
who told them he had seen Simms a
short while before, sitting in the yard
Of a man named Parker, Simms' faith
er-in-law. The officers thereupon
started for Parker's. Arrived there,
they saw no one in the yard save two
small children. Sheriff Parish divided
his force, approaching the house from
one side, while his deputies each ap-
preached from another direction. All
three arrived at the house at the same
time. The elder of the children spied
the officers and shouting, willie, Will
lie here they come" and ran to the
house.
The officers, not having seen Simms,
had concluded he was off in the fields
somewhere. They entered the house,
watchful with their weapons. At the
cry Of the child, simms ever alert,
seized his winchester rife and start
ed out the rear door. Catching sight
Of Sheriff Parish he fired at the officer
at a distance of less than twenty
yards. He missed, and fired but otce
more.
Deputy Gibson fired the shot that
struck Simms first, the sheriff having
fired with his rife and missed. Simms
fell to his knees when struck By Glib
sons shot, but the officers knew his
determination, and saw he was still
trying to work his rifle. They poured
shot after shot into him until his body
was riddled. One bullet nearly cut off
Simms' hand at the wrist.
Parker came up from the fields, at
tracted by the shooting. He knew what
it meant. He said he was surprised
simms had not been killed before that.
1t was found that fourteen shots had
taken effect upon Simms.
A wagon was secured and Simms'
body was taken to Ellabell. The death
Of the outlaw will relieve Bryan coun-
ty of deep apprehension, such has
been the terror of his name and Of
the deeds he has committed. Sheriff
Parish is being generally commended
for his work.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
HITCHCOCK FAvoRs PUBLICITY.

Secretary of Interior Expresses Him
self as TO Campaign Contributions.
Secretary Of the Interior Hitchcock,
in speaking Of campaign contributions,
said in an interview at Washington
Tuesday:
Il have all along been opposed to
secret contributions, and I am in ia
vor of passing law compelling full
publicity Of campaign expenses. The
secrecy given to the campaign contri-
buttons is apt to lead to undesirable
results and cause suspicion. If con
tributions are legitimate there is moth
ing to be feared through publicity"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
MARYLAND DEMOCRATS MEET.

Platform Principally Devoted to Re-
strlctlon of Negro Suffrage.
At the democratic state convention
Of Maryland, which was held in Bal
timore, Comptroller of the State At
l1ins was renominated and a platform
adopted, which, excepting para
graph indorsing the administration Of
the present governor, Is wholly de-
voted to the proposed constitutional
amendment to restrict negro. suffrage
which will be voted upon at the No
vember election,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06

the city of Atlanta, on which taxes
are paid, amounts to $67,5O2,454, as
shown by the October apportionment
sheet, which was recently agreed up
on by the fnance committee. The Oo-
tober apportionment sheet in 1904
showed the real and personal proper
ty of the city to be $62 ,S26947.
The increase in taxable property
since last October, therefore, amounts
to $4,675, 5O7, or bordering on five mil
lions Of dollars.
Of, the total taxable property $751;
125,OO6 is real estatS and $15,S77,44S
is personal. Last year in October the
real estate amounted to $47,747S40
and the personal property to $751;
orc, LOT.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
The Roers Are Wlth us.

A party of fifteen Beers arrived
in Savannah one day the past week
from New York aboard the steamship
City of Atlanta. They are destined
for Helena, Ga, near which place they
are to establish a colony.
Most of those in the party were
formerly members Of the. Boer war or
ganization, which toured the south
last winter, showing in Atlanta and
Savannah, among other places, and
being headed by General Cronje.
The Beers will, it is believed, en-
gage principally in agricultural pur-
suits, though they make also take up
naval stores and numbering enter
prises.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06

College Honors Peace ENJOYS.
The honorary degree Of doctor Of
laws has been conferred by Columbia
University on Baron Komura and Ser
gius White, the senior peace plenipo-
tentiaries Of Japan and Russia
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
Father Stays His Son.

l. G. Graham, who resides about
three miles from Davidsville, shot and
instantly killed his son, Clip, Sunday
afternoon.
It is stated that Clip Graham had
been drinking, and that his father
had tried to avoid a difficulty. The
son advanced on the father with a
knife, when the latter procured a shot
gun and emptied it's contents into the
face Of the young man. The Grahams
are prominent people, the Father being
an ex-confederate veteran.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
ROBBERS ABOARD STEAMER.
Wireless Message Calls for Detectives
to Be in Waiting.

to Be in Waiting.
A wireless message was received
In Savannah Thursday by Captain
Savage, local agent for the Ocean
Steamship company, from Capt. Fish
er Of the steamship City Of Atlanta,
or the way from New York, request
ing him to have detectives at the
dock upon the arrival Of the vessel.
This was all there was to Captain
Fishers message, but the operator
aboard the City Of Atlanta informed
the Savannah operator that there had
been robbers aboard the vessel since
her departure from New York, several
passengers having lost valuables.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
High Court Again at work.

The supreme court Of Georgia con-
vened Monday for the October term,
confronted by perhaps the largest
docket in its history. There are some
more than 400 cases on the civil
docket. not to speak Of the criminal
business and number Of other mat
ters in equity which will be brought
up. on fast bills of exception during
the term.
Altogether, therefore, the supreme
court will have at least 500 cases to
deal with during the next five months,
or a total. Of 100 cases each month
between the present time and the be-
ginning Of the March term The pres
ent October docket is heavier by
about fifty cases than that of last
year.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
EmbezzIer conc to.,erIef.

B. X. Mcdowell OF Broxton, who
fed to Hot Springs, Ark! has surt6h,
dered to Chief Of Police,.Teague, stat
ing that he was formerly cashier Of
tne Broxton Banking company, and
had absconded on September with
$1,000 Of the banks funds.
A few minutes before he accosted
the officer he lost the last Of the mon
ey in a gambling house. At the JAZZ
he made a full confession Of hts
crime and told how he had spent the
money in exactly twenty-six days
The Broxton Banking company is
capitalized at $25,O0O and Mcdowell
says he took all the available cash
when he decided to leave. He is
% years of age and the scion Of an
old southern family. His father was
on his bond to the ban for $4,000.
Five Millions Property Increase.
The real and personal property in
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
SUSPECT TAKEN IN TOW.
First Arrest In Boston Dress SUIT
Case Murder Mystery.

Case Murder Mystery.
The Arst arrest in connection with
the finding in the harbor near Win
throp, Mass, on September 81, OF a
dress suit case, containing the torso
Of a woman on whom the medical ex-
aminer states an illegal operation had
been performed, occurred Sunday
when the police took into custody on
suspicion Of being an accomplish in
the case William A. Haynes of So
Chambers street. West End, Boston.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
TO REDUCE FEVER FIGHTERS.
New orIoans WIn DIagsnse VIE Sd.

New Orleans VIII DIsFense Win sur
plus Of Health Force.
A New Orleans special says: With
the steady improvement in the yellow
fever situation there is expected to
be gradual reduction Of the forces
now employed under the auspices Of
the government in the struggle 20
eradicate the disease,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06

Woman Released on Habsas corpus.
The commitments trial at Newton
of Mrs. Cordelia hilner under the
warrant sworn out against her by her
son, Quentine Miner, charging her
with the murder OF her husband and
his father, Raleigh Miner, did not
materialize on the date fixed for the
hearing
= Mrs. Miners attorney succeeded in
obtaining a ruling OF the court that
Mrs. Miner had already had one com
mitment trial and hees discharged.
This was when the ease was fret in
yesttgated and Quentine Milner bound
over. The point made was that the
court couldn't try her again for the
same offense; that she might, If tried
again, be tried every day following Il
new warrant were issued. It was ar
gued that the question OF newly dis
covered evidence did net affect the
case.
The attorneys, after securing the
courts ruling. secured habeas corpus
papers and obtained the womans re-
lease.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06

Defeats Local Taxation Movement.
The proposition to impose a special
local tax in Putnam county for
school purposes was defeated by a
small majority at an election held the
past week, according to information
received by State School Commission
or Merritt. There ID some little sen
timent in Putnam county against lo-
cal taxation, but it is believed this
viii die away in time and that the
movement will receive the support Of
a majority Of the people.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
Mrs. Cobb Gives Heavy Bond.

When Mrs. Amanda Cobb was, no.
titled she had been indicted on a
charge of murder Of her husband, she
went at once to Gainesville from her
home at Royston and motion was
made for bail.
Ten thousand dollars was agreed
on and bond was made promptly. One
member of the grand Jury signed her
bond. Since the coroner's jury made
an investigation into the death, Of
w. H. Cobb, husband of Mrs. Cobb,
whom she shot and krIled on the night
of August Sth, stating that she mis-.
took him for a burglar, she has been
out under $7OOOATi6nd.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
Want Now Line to savannah.


Business men OF Macon are now
greatly interested in proposition be-
ing put forward by citizens of Tat
nall, Liberty and Toombs counties for
the building of short line from Elem
Ing on the Atlantic Coast Line rail
road to Vidalia, which will connect
the Atlantic Coast Line with the Ma
con, Dublin and Savannah, and thus
give Macon and Savannah much
shorter route. -.
The territory which ais TO be GOV
cred by this proposed new line is
said to be one Of the largest and most
heavily timbered in the state now out
of reach of railway traffic and large
number Of wealthy 1men are already
interested.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06

GEORGIA NEWS:
/
Epitomized Items Of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Graves Announces Tor senate.

Hon. John Temple Graves of At
lanta, well known throughout the
country as an orator, lecturer and
journalist, formally announces him
self as a candidate for the United
States senate, to succeed Hon. A. o.
Bacon. In his announcement he touch
es upon the trusts, the national
freight rate situation, and the doc.
trine of Waite supremacy. "a /,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06

Five Millions Property Increase.
The real and personal property in
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-06-02
Closed a Successful Year.

The Study Club OF Shoshone met
with Mrs. C. NJ. Hemphill, the re-
tiring president, last Friday after
noon. As this was the last meet
ing OF the year, the usual program
was waived, and by special invita-
ton Miss Agatha Jean Soma OF
Boise gave a most interesting in
formal talk on "The Abuses of the
English Language" Dainty re-
freshments were served by the host
ess, assisted by Misses Alberta Nc
Fall and Bessie Burnside, which
closed a very pleasant afternoon.
Besides Miss Soma the guests OF
the club were: Mesdames Pierce,
Binford, Wallace, Nolan and God
frey.
The year which has just closed
has been devoted by the club to
the study of American literature
and current topics. The subject
chosen for the incoming year is
Germany" and it is safe to assert
that the work completed in the
year 1906 will be as successful as
that of the past year. The new Of
fcers are: Pres. Mrs. C. r. Wheel
er; vice-pres., Mrs. C. NJ. Hemp
lill; sec, Mrs. F. w. Gooding;
.reas., Mrs. l.. NJ. Burnside.