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The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-05

For the accommodation of delegates and
visitors to the above convention the
Frisco System takes pleasure in am
nouncing that limited tickets reading via
their line from points to Kansas City
will be accepted for return passage via
st. Louis, and upon deposit of ticket
with Joint Validating Agent at st. Louis
and payment Of $500 validating fee, a
stop over of five days can be secured.
This arrangement is made for the pur-
pose of enabling those who may desire
to attend the Northern Baptist anniver-
saries, which owen at ST. Louis inn
mediately after the close of the Kansas
CITY convention.
SPECIAL TRAIN
will leave Memphis 800 pm Wednesday,
May 10th, arriving Kansas City $40
am. Thursday, May 18th.
Through sleepers, chair cars and
dining cars.
For full particulars address
j. N. CoRNATzAR,
A. G. P. A., Memphis, Tenn.
w. l.. EVANS,
i. P. A., Memphis, Tenn.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-05
She Died As She Had Lived

Mrs. Helms, near Richmond, Miss,
departed this life April q, 1906 Sister
Helms was 36 years, l month and 10
days old. She leaves a husband and
several children to mourn her loss.
Sister Helms had been a consistent
member of the Methodist church for
fifteen years. She was afflicted for
some time. She was willing to die,
but had a desire to stay with her dear
children. Her bereaved husband re-
quested an interest in the prayers of
of all christian people. May God bless
him and help him to raise his children
for heaven. Sister Helms was laid to
rest in the Andrew Chapel cemetery to
await the resurrection. Our prayer is
that God may help husband and chill
dren in their bereavement. May God
bless and save them.
Rev. Joseph Raper.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-05
Referee Wilson's Deposal.

The press South is making a
deal to do because Of the retire
ment ofRepublicanRe Wilson
in Mississippi, and various and
sundry reasons are given for his
deposal, Some insist that Ref
cree Wilson violated the Pres
ident's confidence, thereby bring
ing about the hostility of the
State Of Mississippi toward the
Chief Executive. Others declare
that Wilson sought his retire
ment, expecting to form some
coalition with Gov. Longino and
his friends toward future control
of the State.
It may be possible that Wilson's
recommendations to The Pres
ident were unwise, tending to
bring upon himself the dislike
of the State and causing Mr..
Roosevelt to be freely criticised,
but the referees public record
shows no evidence Of any betray-
al of the Presidents confidence.
lon the contrary it is plain that
he did his best in behalf Of Mr..
Roosevelt. But it IS also plain
this best was at most q mere trifle'
AS to the combination with ex-
Gov. Longino, Mississippians vii
lose no sleep. They recognize
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-05
In Memoriam.

On Monday a. m. April "a, 1906, after.
an illness of over six weeks, the spirit
of Mrs. Mary Eta Walker Davis winged
its flight to heaven, leaving a broken
hearted husband and children to mourn
their loss.
Mrs. Davis was born Dec. Is, A. D..
1845, and vas married to Mr.. w. H.
Davis on her 21st birthday, having been
his faithful companion for nearly forty
years, always bearing her share of the
trials, trouble, and tribnlations that
befall almost everyone in this life.
She long ago gave her heart to God
and joined the M. E. Church, South,
and has lived a consistent member ever
since.
AS a mother, she was most devoted,
having lost several children. She seemed
to cling closer to those God, in his wis
dom, saw fit to spare her. She, would
gladly deny herself anything for their
pleasure.
AS a friend she was verfaithful and
true, all who shared her friendship
prizedit more than words can express.
She was ever ready to lend a helping
handi in time of need.
She bore her suffering with untold
fortitude and patience, never murmur-
ing, complaining at her lot.
Her body was laid to rest in Old
Chapel cemetery near Verona, where
a large circle of friends had gathered
to pay the last sadrites to their departed
friend. Bro. C. P. Moss performed
the ceremony in very touching and
appreciate words, after which the
mound was coveredwith choice flowers.
To the bereaved, heart broken hus-
band and children, the whole communi-
ty extends their heartfelt sympathy
and bids them take comfort in the
blessed promises of God.
So live my friends that when God SUM
mons you DER,
You can meet loved ones to part no
more. D. F.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-05


that there is not the remotest
chance for any coalition OF the
kind.
The fact is that Wilson's retire
ment is Of little moment in Mis-
sissippi outside the few Repub-
licans who look for a spoonful OF
Federal pie The great body Of
the people there, however, are OF
the opinion that he was removed
because he is unpopular in pol
itics and that L. B. Mosely was
made refereein his place because
Mr.. Mosely enjoys quite an ex-
tensiye personal popularity.
Commercial Appeal.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-05

the U6SlIlIllIlS VI Vic WIN, ~
many investigations" bave ever
aefore been going on at the same
time. Richmond Times-Dis-
patch.
Recent census of Chicago shows
that the population lacks some
thing of being 2, 900, 900. Should
have been taken before the beef
trust investigation began. Flor
ida Times-U Union.
MEMS hearts are says Or.
Hills, filled with longing for
something better and finer.
Why, then, do they hesitate about
the better and finer spring bonnet
for wifey?-Louisville Herald.
Another snub for the Kaiser!
Mi. Pierpont Morgan, who was
in Sicily at the date Of the royal
visit, left without granting his
majesty an audience. London
Punch.
Mckinley called it the execut'
i've mansion; Roosevelt insists or
White House. By any othel
name It would look just as gooc
to Colonel Bryan. st. Louis
PostrD Dispatch.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-05
Notice 10 Privilege Taxpayers.

Notice IL hereby given, as required by section
II of the privilege tax laws of 1904, that all
privilege tax licenses, except those iss ued to
railroads and retail liquor dealers. will expire
during the month Of April and must be renewed
or IL months during the month Of May.
Unless the licenses are renewed during the
month OF May 1t is made the duty of the tax
collector to collect double the amoudt of the
original tax, and as he is left without any dis
cretion whatever in the matter, I trust that all
privilege tax payers will promptly come forward
procure their licenses during the month OF May
pnd save me the necessity of enforcing the heavy
penalty. WILL KELLY, Tax Col
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-05
Notice to Contractors.

Notice Is hereby given that the board of super
yisors will. on Monday, May !, 1905. award the
contract to the lowe, t responsible bidder, IN
front of the court house door. in the city of Tu-
pelo. at 2 p. m, at public cutlery for the doug of
the %fOllowing public works, contractor to give
bond The board reserves the right to reject any
and all bids and re advertise, to wit;
For new bridge across Kings creek on new
CLAYTON and Wilson road: for new bridge on
coenewah creek on Tnpelo and chesteryille road
Done by order of the board. this 10th day of
March 1908 q w LONG clerk.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-05
PEN-PICTURES OF The OLDEN TIME
BY col. W. |. CLAYTON.

o.
In thinking over the scenes that
have occurred during my life /
sometimes believe if any one can
cause even but one more ray of
sunshine to flow into the life Of
those with whom we associate, it
is his duty to do SO, even though
it cost him much labor and pains.
The old scenes through which an
old man has passed ought to be
philosophy teaching by example.
All have noticed with what eager
ness people read anything with
which they have had, or now
have, any connection. Especially
is this true if the incidents re-
lated are about the old times and
old men and women. some of
whom still remain, or who have
descendants still living who have
access to the writing. Thinking
over this has impressed me with
the thought that some "Pen-Pic-
lures of the Olden Time might
not be undressing reading.
There may be some few older
citizens in this county than my
brother John apd /, but it is more
likely there are but few, if any.
Our father, c.. C. Clayton. moved
to the territory composing this
county in November 1910, and
settled the land where Eugene
Curtia now lives, about five miles
east of Tupelo. / was then a very
small boy, being some less than
four years old, though / remem-
Der the move.
When we moved to this county
the nearest settlement to us on
the east was the residence of the
Colbert brothers, half-breed In
dians, about five miles from Tu-
pelo. where the widow of T. j.
Walker now lives; and to the east
of us the nearest residence was
the Hartsfield place, about five
miles west from Fulton, and no
neighbors nearer on the by-road
either north or south of us.
There were no doctors in the
country at all, and only occasion
ally did a Methodist minister pass
through on a very wide circuit.
My father bled people who wish
ed it done, and extracted their
teeth with a pair of pullers which
he himself made in his black
smith shop. No physician enter
ed our home but once the first
ten years of our residence here,
and the patient whom he attend
ed, a brother younger and next
in birth to me, died. When he
died no graveyard had been Sc
lected in all this country, and we
had to bury him in a little lot
where we then thought a church
would be built, but which was
never done, and there his remains
rested until the old graveyard
was located near the present res
idence Of Eugene Curtis, when
we removed his remains to that
place. This is the old Bethlehem
graveyard, where there was a
Cumberland Presbyterian church
for may years, aud many of my
relatives rest under it's trees.
When we first settled here the
appearance Of the country was
quite different to what it is now.
Game was plentiful, and it was
no uncommon thing for deer to
walk up to the house or be seen
by a short walk into the woods.
Wolves. also, and wildcats and
catamounts were numerous, and
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-05

~h 0NSpIA R04ANlACA NOulA Nc
heard to scream. / remember
one time when / was a small boy
to have gone with a woman who
lived on our place to visit a neigh
Dor, and, being quite late in the
evening returning home, the
wolves came bowling on our
track and near to us as though
they would devour us, and the
rapidity with which we moved
off would have done honor to a
quarter horse. There was then
in this country a beautiful bird
in large droves, but which have
since disappeared altogether
they were called paraquites, and
were of a beautiful green, red
and yellow color, with very long
crooked bills, somewhat like that
Of the parrot, and they were very
much the size of parrots. They
were quite destructive to wheat,
oats and rye fields. There was
also a reptile which we called
scorpions, and which have also.
become extinct in this country.
They were quite large, as | now
remember, some of them eighteen
inches long, with a dark and
sometimes bright brown color,
with a blood red head, and they
often made a sound as the bark
ing of a small dog, and | have
seen them often jump out of a
tree like a squirrel, and we boys
used always to believe that they
would spring out of trees on us,
but such never occurred. There
were a great variety of birds
then which we never see now,
and red birds were then as thick
as the English sparrow is now.
The vast forests were covered
with the original sage grass,
growing as high as a mans head,
and intcrspersed here and there
with wild peas and beggar lice,
both of which were fine for cat
tie. In the fall or winter this
grass was burned off, and by that
means all underground was kept
down, so that the woods were set
in large forest trees, with open
space between, by which any one
could see az far as the eye could
sean. Some places in the hollows
there was switch cane instead Of
the grass above mentioned, and
all the bottoms were thickly cov-
cred with large cane, among
which cattle could winter in good
fix. There was a growth Of small
trees, saplings and bushes on the
borders of the streams. In the
creeks fish were abundant, and
there were many large and deep
holes in the creeks, enabling the
fish to live all through the dry sea-
sons ofthe year, which have been
filled up in late years blythe wash
ing into them of sand and dirt
from the cultivated fields.
If | had the pen of a ready
writer, enabling me to give al
pen-picture of the appearance OF
the virgin forests in those olden
times, covered with the great up
stretching trees, with occasional
vines INTERVIEWING them from top
to bottom loaded with wild grapes
or luscious muscadines, and the
plains and hillsides waving with
beautiful wild flowers wasting
their fragrance on the desert
air." it would read like a fairy
tale and be read with the avidity
of a school boys first perusal of
|Ivanhoe or Rob Roy.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-05
A WORD FROM THE PRESS.

pen, a wholr parcel Of changes
occur before the nominating con
vention in 1908. 1t is all very
well to have your lightning roc
up and your fences in repair, but
there is no necessity as yet fol
campaign uniforms, brass bands,
or spellbinding pyrotechnics.
Cleveland Leader.
1t is not surprising to hear that
Governor Douglas is giving Mas.
sachusetts a very good business
administration. A man who full
ly appreciates the value Of news
paper advertising unquestionably
has some sound business ide as.
Kansas City Journal.
The man who drinks fighting
whisky ought to be arrested fol
carrying concealed weapons. =
Washington Post.
Perhaps the public would be
willing to pay these congressman
mileage for travelling the other
wav.-The Commoner.
Uncle Sam has taken an ac-
count of stock in the Philippines
and finds that the job lot OF
natives there cost him originally
$3.50 a ead.-Florida Times
Union.
1t is greatly to Mr. Carnegie's
credit that in spite of the frequen-
cy with which he is misquoted
and misrepresented, he remains
a philanthropist. Washington
Star.
AS the United States supreme
court has just decided that a
land-owning Indian may buy
whisky, and that it is not a crime
to sell it to him, there is a good
chance for all Indian land owners
to become landless in time. San
Francisco Chronicle.
College commandments are al
most ripe and the earth will
soon be under new management.
Puck.
Straw hats are not considered
to be en- regle until strawberry
shortcake is de trop. st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Women are not the only Amer
leans who pay fabulous sums for
titles. John w. Gates spent 81,
600, 900 trying to become known
as a wheat king and then did not
succeed. Kansas City Star.
When an editor sits up till IL
o'clock at night preparing hot
air refreshments for his subscrib-
ers and then plows all the next
day we call that Investigation.
Garrison TEX Cleaner.
There need be no surprise if
Newport declares a quarantine
against towns in which cerebro-
spinal meningitis is prevalent.
The physicians have discovered
that.the disease is fatal to mon
keys. Washington Post.
If | were the Gar I'd hire a
bunch of the Daughters of the
Revolution, and put them to the
front in Manchuria. Reading
(Pa). Telegram.
Govenor-Senator La Toilette
proposes a law for the proven
ton of railway accidents" Funny
no one ever thought of a simple
remedy like that before. Wash
ington Post.
1t is said that General Sherman
Bell, presently of Colorado, has
been offered generalship in the
Venezuelan army. We believe
that we represent the unanimous
voice Of the American people II
urging him to accept the job
Columbia Is. CO. State.
It is doubtful whether, since
the beginning of the world, s.
many Investigations bave evel
aefore been going on at the same
time. Richmond Times-Dis
patch.
Recent census of Chicago show
that the population lacks some
thing Of being 1000, 900. Shoult
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-23
MONTANA SoUIBBs.

James A. Tanner of Washington, d.
c., assistant United States attorney
general, recently took the testimony
at Helena of c. d. French, deputy
state auditor and formerly deputy col
lector of internal revenue for Montana,
in a proceeding brought by Mrs. Mar
Gus Daily Administrative of the estate
Of the late Marcus DAILY against the
United States to recover $4,000 paid
by the dead copper millionaire's estate
under the provisions of the inheritance
tax law of 1898, the war revenue act.
W. S. Crews, an old and prominent
resident of Pony. shot and killed his
wife, then turning the gun on himself
put a bullet into his own head and
died an hour afterward. The tragedy
occurred Saturday evening at the
Crews home
The town of Neihart is getting ex-
cited over the gold discovery at Jo-
hannesburg, about five miles below
Neihart camp.
w. &. Harmon, state superintendent
Of public instruction in Montana, has
just compiled and issued a manual of
study for the use of teachers in his
state.
The board of county commissioners
over the state have received a copy
of the official call of the eighth annual
convention of the American Mining
congress, which will be held at FL
Paso, Texas, November IA to IS.
In the experiment station building
at the Montana State Agricultural col
lege at Bozeman a new biological lab
oratory and lecture room has been fit
ted up with table and a steropticon
In the basement of the building there
is also a laboratory for soil physiC
and one for grain testing. The whole
door will be given to the study Of
agronomy. One of the greenhouses
will be used to demonstrate the ger
minatiOn of plants In the dairy schoo
several new pieces of apparatus have
been added by the manufacturers free
Of charge. Among these are two cream
separators. a milk pump and a com
bined worker and churn.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-23
MINING NOTES.

Nanaimo, b. C.-After a struggle of
nearly five months, which has brought
the business houses of Nanaimo to a
state of bankruptcy, the end of the
coal miners strike is now believed to
be in sight.
Reports from the Occur d'Alenes in
dictate that the Chesapeake & Tama-
rack mine is working in a body of es-
pecially rich ore.
Announcement is made that the
American Shelters Securities COM
pany has purchased a controlling in
terest in the Federal Mining & Smelt-
ing company, through the acquisition
of approximately 100000 of the out
standing common stock AS the Amer
lean Smelling & Refining company
controls the American Shelters Secu-
rites company, the former company
is the real owner of the Federal. The
American Shelters Securities com
pany has also acquired nearly all the
capital stock of the Dairy Farm mine
Of California, a valuable copper prop
erty. The American Shelters Securi-
ties company will receive from its
Federal mining investment about
100000 annually, but under the sys-
tenn of smelter improvement and ex-
tension planned the income will soon
greatly exceed this, while it will virtu-
ally control the smelling business
The Federal Mining & Smelling
company was organized by Charles
Sweeny with an issued capital OF
so ,000.0 common and 100000 pre-
ferred stock 1t was combination OF
the silverlead mines of the CoeuI
d'Alenes. and John ID. Rockefeller. Jr.
was one of the directors. Mr.. Sweeny
was heavy stakeholder and president
Of the company. He recently disposed
Of his interests for about $2,6OOOOO tc
the American SHELTERS Securities com
pany.
The Idaho Giant. situated two miles
south OF Mullan, Idaho, is making al
exceptionally good showing.
A solid block of ore. valued at SAL
per ton and weighing over three tons
is among the ore samples on the dunn
at the Mckinley mine, near GranC
Forks. B. c.
Discovery of a gold bearing ledge il
reported from the Bald Mountain dis
trict Of eastern Oregon. That it assays
$4,000 to the ton is the smallest est
mate. while some are of the opinion
that $4,000 ia not too high. The new
find is an extension of the group il
which such a rich strike was made I
few days ago by Messrs. Besslers ant
Dunno, and known as the Gold Nugge
group.
Production OF the mines of Boun
dairy for last week was 1889 tons
total for year. 619,172 tons. Boundar.
smelters last week treated as follows
CRANKY smelter. 1885 tons; B. c
Copper smelter 1923; total treatmen
for week. 1918 tons. Total for yea
to date, 636,1S4 tons.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-23
BUILD new RAILROAD
N. P. And G. N. TO CONSTRUCT A
LINE, PASCO TO PORTLAND.
Will Run Line Down North Bank Of
columbia-To Be Built as Rapidly
as Possible-WilI Give Both Roads
First Class Entrance to the Oregon
city-23o Miles-cost s1a,ooo,ooo.

President Howard Elliott of the Nor
thern Pacific railway has made public
the fact that a road to be built ana
operated jointly by the Northern Pa
cifc and the Great Northern is to be
constructed down the north bank Of
the Columbia river from Pasco, Wash.
the point where the Northern Pacific
crosses the Columbia river in eastern
Washington-to Vancouver, Wash,
and from the latter place spanning
the Columbia and willamette rivers,
to Portland.
The Great Northern and Northern
Pacific Railway companies have or
ganized and own jointly the Portland
G. Seattle Railway company. That
company will build a railroad as
rapidly as men and material will per-
nit from Kennewick. opposite Pasco.
along the north bank of the Columbia
river to Vancouver. Bridges over the
Columbia and willamette rivers will
be built from \ ancouver to a connec-
ton with the present line Of the North
ern Pacific, north of Portland. When
the railroad and bridges are finished,
they will give the Great Northern
and Northern Pacific a first class en-
trance to Portland and a direct line to
and from the east. The line is 23O
miles long and saves 164 miles. Work
will begin at once and the road will be
finished quickly
Unofficial estimates place the cost
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-23
OREGON ITEMS.

As a result of differences between
Major J. J. McKOin. superintendent Of
the Umatilla Indian agency. and Clerk
C. NJ. Robinson, both have been order
ed to report for duty at other agencies.
In a Portland lodging house not
piped for gas many inmates would
have lost their lives recently had II
not been for the strange belief of one
Of the roomers. Martin Donaldson Of
Kentucky, that he was being robbed.
Fumes which filled the rooms were
sucked in through transoms and
doors Of the building from a large
open burner ina saloon belonging to
Pat Collins, adjoining the Burnside
lodging house, by a steady draught.
Donaldson staggered into the hall
way and the people who saw him
armed fed for their lives and hurry
call was sent to the police. Other
rooms on that side of the house were
filed with the deadly fumes. Police
man John Goltz, who answered the
call, aroused the people.
Ten lashes were laid upon the barred
back Of Robert w. Cecil in the county
Jail at Baker City. at the hands Of
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-23

ARMY Officers Duties

Washington. Only the Simple life"
is possible for young army officers, &C.
cording TO Major General Corbin. COM
manding the philippine division. In
his annual report, General Corbin syas
there is too frequently evidence that
there are officers in the service not
mindful of their obligations. The num-
Der sof complaints on this point, he
says, calls for drastic treatment
The general then lays down these
principles:
1.-The moment an officer begins liv-
ing beyond his means he should be sub
jected to discipline. Young officers
joining the service should be admon-
ished that for them only the simple life
is possible. The moment an officer is
possessed with an uncomfortable desire
for any other life his duty TO himself
as well as to his regiment, should sep
crate himself from the service and en-
ter thesfelds from which the material
awards admit Of more luxurious liv-
ing"
There are now 1875 troops in the
Philippines, including 5123 native
scouts, and General Corbin recon-
mends there be no reduction in this
force.