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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09
HIS CONSCIENCE TROUBLED HIM

HIS CONSCIENCE TROUBLED HIM,
 Judge Tyner in the city court yes- terday morning continued the charges of theft against William Woodson and his wife, Catherine, until August10. Bonds were fixed at s4,000 in each case.
 Woodson, as told yesterday in this pa. per, was brought into police headquar- ters Monday night in somewhat in- toxioated condition. He begged the au- thorities to punish him most severely, saying tht he had stolen $3,2O0 on April Il. 1903, and that he conscience troubled him.
 On being questioned further he also Implicated his wife, and she was placed under arrest also.
 When Woodson first told his story to Sergeant Dennehy that officer thought 1t the rawlings of an intoxicated man, but with his usual good judgment he decided to investigate it.
 Woodsen stated that in 1903 he and his wife had been living in a house on Olive street with an old man named Thomas Toole, and the money had been stolen from Mir Toole at that time
 Mir. Toole was located and he said he had been robbed as stated He was taken to police headquarters to identify Woodson, but Woodson saw him first and cried out That's the man rob- bed; that's the man I robbed"
 Assistant City Attorney Hoyt said that MT. Woodson's confession in sub stance was as follows: In the summer of 1908 about two weeks before the dedication of the Ninth regiment monu- ment at City Point, the Woodsons and Mir Toole lived in the same house on Olive street.
 Since a very young man MT. Toole had been saving his money and every time he had a bill he was in the habit Of throwing it in a big trunk he had in his room. The woodsons knew this and Mrs Woodson was fin the habit Of saying what fine time she and her husband might have with the contents of the trunk
 One day another boarder in the house dropped a key chain, holding lot of different sized keys, and Mrs. Woodson picked it up. She told her husband that she was sure that one of them would open Mir. Toole,s trunk. She then per suaded her husband to try it.
 One day when they had the house to themselves the couple went to MT. Toole's room and with the aid of one of the trees the trunk has quickly opened.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09
INIIrNcTIoN HOLDS.

Judge Tyner of the city court yester- day morning denied the motion to dis solve the Injunction in the case of Ed ward and Margaret Taylor against Ann D. Hahan. The defendant got our a summary process concerning a rent at 7S George street and the plaintiffs ob- tained an injunction preventing the ser vice of the process. The injunction u,o1Js
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09

A safe bet is the one you were going to make and didn't.-Philadelphia Rec ord
 By the way. how did you come out with that drink cure you put in your husbands tea? First rate. He hasn't drank a drop since" ''Of whiskey?" "No. Tea. Milwaukee Sentinel.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09
FOR NEW BUILDING.

National Pipe Bending Company Takes
 Out Permit.
 Building Inspector Austin issued a building permit yesterday to the Ma tional Pipe Bending company to erect a s25,OOO building as an addition to the company's present plant in Lloyd street It is to be a one-story brick factory, COX 90 feet being the main dimensions, with a wing 36x7O feet.
 Work on the new building will be rushed at once.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09
HAS MORE TROUBLE.

Pasquale de Angelis, who keeps a barbershop at 360 Columbus avenue, was before the city court yesterday morning, charged with assaulting Philip Baur, who has some rooms in the same building. The evidence went ito show that the men had some trouble over the rent and that De Angelis struck Baur. De Angelis had paid the fine and costs. Attorney Wynne, who represented Baur, had Constable Cole man place an attachment on him, in 8 civil suit for $100 damages.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09

That young Medders seems rather new to the city, but he's got a lot of money. How did he get it?"
 Gas"
 You mean he was engaged in the manufacture of gas?"
 No; a rich old uncle of his blew 1t out. Catholic Standard.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09
IN AND ABOUT THE COURTS
SHERTBF'S CHARGES AGAINST TS-
 BELL ESTATE NOW 5000
Attorney Iseeman Won-Injunction HOlds--Has More TroubIe-The Af- fairs of Lewis s. WeIch--His Con- science Troubled Him-Many Cases Before the City Court.

Constable O'Brien, who is the officer in charge Of the George A. Isbell es- tate, filed in the probate court yester- day another statement of his charges and fees. His bill now amounts to little over $2,O00. and yesterday the tooth day that the constable has been in charge of the estate.
 Constable O'Brien was appointed on April 25 by Judge Cleaveland. Because of the failure of lawyers to agree on the matter MT. OBrien has been unable to receive any of his account for services. The constable has practically given up all other business in order to give his time to the affairs of the estate. He, says that an administrator should be. appointed at once as his farm produce is wasting. The settlement of the es- tate is held up pending the decision of an important point in law that is in- volved
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09

CASES BEFORE THE CITY COURT
 Charles Jeffries, colored, told Judge Tyner in the city court yesterday morn ing that he paid a brakeman $1.50 and gave him half pint of whiskey to al- low him to ride from 129th street and Harlem river, New York, to this city He stated that the train left New York shortly before o'clock. When he ar- rived in New Haven the brakeman put him off the train, and then in getting out of the yards he got lost and was found by Watchman Michael J. Ryan Ryan said he would show him the way to the street, and he took him to the Spring street gate and turned him over to the police.
 Jetfries was very funny on the witt ness stand and said F'IIe showed me the way out all right, all right"
 Judge Tyner remarked that he thought the young man told the truth and Court Officer Gilligan was ordered to show him the way out of court. He has been employed at Haddon Hall At lantic City, and is bound for Boston.
 Giuseppe Conpanorto, charged with burglarizing Abraham Goldberg's store at 66S Grand avenue, was bound over to the superior court under $500 bonds
 George Ulizo, alias George Murphy, charged with making false statements when hiring team, was lined $1 and costs. s
 Luigi Fusco, charged with attempting to assault a child, was held in default of $2,OO0 bail until August IS for trial.
 John T. H. Douglass, charged with discharging firearms in the city limits, was fined s1 and costs. He resides at 199 Atwater street.
 John J, Carr forfeited a $75 bond on an improper conduct charge. Florence Everett was fined $7 and sent to jail for thirty days for similar offense. Samuel Cohen, in whose house they were arrested, in Eaton street, was fin- ed $10 and costs for keeping a disorder ly house, and Mary Reardon White who was arrested in the place. was told to leave New Haven quickly and go back to Bridgeport.
 Johanna Sweeney, charged with breach of the peace, was fined $5 and costs.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09

The Theater Magazine for August contains plenty to interest the reader. There is great variety both in pictures and literary matter. William F. Crane in an interview gives some of hls stage "reminiscences and incidentally the CO., median scores our native playwriters. Henry P. Goddard contributes some in teresting recollections of Charlotte Cushman. Fanny Janausehek and Mary Scott Siddons, while Harry P. Mawson writes instructively and entertainingly of the many difficulties tlTat beset the path of the tyro playwright
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09

The trunk was damned full of bills of all denominations and there was also a small amount of gold. Mrs Woodson held out her apron and her husband threw the money into it in armsful,
 After cleaning out the trunk the couple went to New York to the home of relative, with whom they left most of the money. Mr. Hoyt says the rela- tives must have known that the money was stolen because the couple had to give him $1,OOO to keep the balance for them.
 Later they came back to this city with what was left of the stolen money and they deposited it with a man nam ed Angelo Porto, drawing what sums they needed from time to time until now it is all gon.
 It is said that some of the bills in the trunk were over fifty years old.
 T don't hardly think the couple real ize what a serious scrape they are in," said MT. Hoyt.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09

Three boys in a sailboat in a spank ing breeze look out from the coer page of the Aug. American Boy. The names of Stratemeyer, Tomlinson, Alger and Harbour stand out in the text in strik- ing serials now running Every boy knows that where these names appear there is something of interest to him.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09

The new Broadway Magazine contin- ues to sustain it's new policy of uni form excellence. The August number opens with story by Eugene Wood. 'In the Days of His Separation" A remarkable story and the first attempt in fiction to deal with the patent medi- cine proposition.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
SOME or THE LATEST BOOKS
 OF THE SEASON

"A Rock in tie BaItic," by Robert Barr ---''The Man Betweea," by AmeMa F, Barr--"The Lady Evelyn," by Max PembsHtOn--August NEagazines.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-11
REVENUE FROM TRAFFIC.
Is the Self-Interest of the Railway Always
Ample Protection to the Shipperf

railway Is a business enterprise. It's reye-
nues come from Its traffic. Without traff,o n
has no revenue and yields no return Its trans
portation charges must. therefore. be so ADJUST
ed as to develop it's business-such that its Iura-
Der can move from It's forests its coal from its
mines. its iron from It's furnaces The self-in-
terest or the railway often compels IL to estab-
lish rates. in order that it's traffic may move.
which are lower than would be fixed by any
government tribunal invested with that author
lily. Laying hold on this undoubted truth. tbs
opponents or railway regulation insist that thu
sen-intereSt of the railway Is ample protection
TO the shipper. since the rate will not be so adj
Naheed as TO interfere with ths movement oe
the traffic
important one In Its application 10 railway op-
Grafton. and that 10 has exercised high SAL
utry influence upon the development OF thu
resources or our country, IL is a most suostsn-
tlaI reason why railways should be given the
initiative In the making OF their rates; but it
does not anord adequate protection against the
imposition OF unjust rates. for the reason that
the rate may be too high and the traffic stil
move.
Consider once more our cattle case. Here was
an advance of - per cent I'm cattle rates to mar
ket-an addition OF S4.Oon0oo annually to the
revenues 10 those railroads and SltNoto.oOO to
the value OF their properties. And Yet the teSt;-
mony In that case shows that It's effect upon the
movement OF the traffic was comparatively
slight The amount OF loss through reduction
In tonnage was as nothing compared with the
gain through Increase I'm the net revenues.
VIII the astute traffic manager Kill tho han
which lays the golden egg No. but IL the ami
mai Is eonfded TO his exclusive custody he may
appropriate all the eggs. and he certainly WITH
appropriate more than his share-(Charles n
Prouty, In The Century
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-11

forty square miles OF territory surrounding
an Incorporated town containing many mercan-
Eie houses. a bank, gins and sawmills, without
white inhabitant, where the town marshal
and neighborhood constable are the only idle
persons. IS the brief statement Of the negro
colony founded and built up at Mound Bayou.
Miss. by isaiah T. Montgomery.
This Is the only town in Mississippi and prob
ably the only one IN the United States in which
every official. including municipal. bank, rail
road and express companies, is a negro. II is
five miles from Mound Bayou 10 any Caucasian
settlement The colony Is also negro IN concep-
fion well execution.
Montgomery, the founder. was born slave
On the Joseph Z. Davis plantation, near Vicks-
burg, and grew up IN the family OF his master
and Jefferson Davis. His father was the master
snechanic ana carpenter for the plantation.
Isaiah learned 20 read from his father, and be-
came the Office boy of Mr.. Davis. His chief
occupation then was u copy. index and file Mr..
Davis's letters and papers. When Joseph T.
Davis fled from the approaching federals he
left the Montgomerys in charge Of his planta-
ton. and when the invaders took charge OF II
isaiah Montgomery became cabin boy TO Ad-
mirai Porter Of the United States Navy.
After the war he returned 20 the plantation
with the rest Of his family and they soon got
into communication with Mr.. Davis. They tried
20 run the big plantation profitably for som,
years, but financial disaster overlook them, ant
at the age OF forty Isaiah started out for him
self lie tells IL this way:
II first took up a small mercantile and res
taurant business near the National Cemetery a
vicksburg. Miss. II was at this place that AIajo
George ". McGiEnis. land commissioner of III
Louisville, Aew-Oreans and Texas Railway
began correspondence with me- resulting 4
personal conference. and then a trip OF IN
spection through the delta accompanied by
civil engineer and the selection OF Mound Bayou
Tine name is derived from enormous noun
at the junction OF two bayous that compose n
principal drainage system OF two-thirds OF II
lands i'm this locality.
Here 1 sought TO begin anew the dream {
ufe's young manhood Grace building). But. o.
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myl the situation was wild; giant trees stood
thickly. rearing their tops Ioftily skyward, with
thick underground Of cane and briars. render
ing travel mpracticable save through the mar
row paths hewn out by direction of the magnetic
needle.
1.-The nuclei with which I had formerly la
bored were scattered. and a beginning had to
be made with material. under conditions
most strange and uninvitng. Certainly could
not have succeeded but for the fact of having
brought my family to the scene and giving my
soul TO the work. Though frequently absent,
whether TO confer with prospective settlers, at
| tend gatherings or appear before Congressional
committees at Washington or the levee commits
/ sion at New York in the interest of our leves
system, my people could realize that my lot was
unalterably cast with them.
THE people had TO be found and then inspired
with a sentiment similar 10 this. why stagger
at the difficulties that confront you; have you
not for centuries braved the miasma and hewn
down forests like these at the behest OF a mas
ter? Can you not do IL for yourselves and your
children unto successive generations, that they
( may worship and develop under their own vine
and fig tree?'"
Montgomery. with cousin named Green
bought $40 acres and began the campaign of
Inducing negroes to come there. They came. but
there also came the rub. The country was wild
100 lar distant from transportation prior to the
construction Of the railroad for man to ship. the
forest was untouched There was sign of an
axe having been there. save for the open right
Of way OF the newly constructed road. The
jungle outside this path impenetrable save
for bears. panthers and the more hardy WILD
game.
Colonsts came and with them brought tn,
usual liberal allowance of children and dogs ant
small allowance of stock and Implements Will
| practically no money There was cleared
iand for them 10 work. renters shares
But the railroad needed erossties for the eve
e growing lines. Timber agents came along witt
propositions TO haul and pay for stave bolts
others wanted spoke material At these tn
coionists went to work. Now. this is true OF tn
. negro; while In flush tunes be may spen
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-11

money freely In living, in hard times ne can live
as cheapV as Chinaman. The Mound Bayou
colonists performed the difficult task of sustain
ing themselves in this wilderness off of the
Wilderness while they were preparing the land
for cultivation and gathering the first crops
OF suffering there plenty Hardships were
the everyday routine Of life. But there was also
perseverance.
AT the emu OF three years the colonists hal
located and bought 4,OIS acres of land and had
acquired ninety-one horses and mules eipbtv
seven head of cattle and 245 hogs They had
opened up and prepared for future cultivation
some 1880 acres Of land. and had raised crons
on Cos acres. OF this land 525 acres Welded gro
bales of cotton and the remaining 100 acres
brought forth 3O45 bushels of corn rbev bad
earned $3.50 from their timber work and the
colony was on a footing which gave promise of
success. The wilderness had been succaadad h,,
the frontier ana as colonsts came faster those
already there were In position give them Soma
aid until they could establish themselves Tbua
the colony evolved until now there arc Soma
| 1900 people in it. They own practicaliv all oS
the land for five miles north and south d..
the railroad, extending about four miles on each
| side. Mound Bayou is about the centre of this
tract. There are now about 5000 acres of land
In a high state of cultivation. The cotton Weld
| last year was 5000 bales, and this season ,ba
! Yield will be about the same, the addition Of nov
land about offsetting the bad crop conditions
/ cent of the corn and 80 per cent of the bav
| needed by ii.
/ The town of Mound Bayou has some 400 To bOo
population. and covers seventy-five acres OF
| ground. In It there are thirty-two mercantile
! houses including one drug store. There are
| three blacksmith and wagon shops one news
paper. three DOCTORS one lawyer one photog-
| rapher one harness maker, one restaurant md
| boarding house one combination gin and saw
| mill three gins, one sawmill one bank Tbasa
| do an aggregate annual business OF about Sio0
COO Hence the private business of the town, all
In addition 10 this the railroad does an eDr,9;
business of some $4,000. while the postal money
order receipts and payments amount to the same
| figure The postal stamp and envelope sales anS
Concentrations amount 10 $500 Hence the na anu
owners and agents transact an annual business
Mound Bayou was organized March s Iaoa
with an authorized capital Of $4,000, of which
It paid II per cent dividends and for the tWsIvs
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The $4,000 on deposit gives an idea of how
tne colony is progressing financially. Every cent
OF STOCK Is owned by negroes and every deposit
is that OF a negro. Montgomery is authority for
the statement that nearly all of the heads of
Families in the colony own property. The bulk
or this is owned in 40-acre tracts. but there are
a few tracts large as 300 acres, owned by tho
moro industrious colonists.
So much for the financial status of the negro
left alone in the regulation OF his internal affairs
When asked to the moral condition of his
people at and around Mound Bayou, Montgom-
cry replied that some years ago the leading peo-
pie began to look into this matter, and that a
committee from each church was appointed to
make thorough canvass of each house in the
colony. The report of this committee showed
forty couples who had omitted the formality of
a marriage ceremony. The Mound Bayouites at
once gave formal notice to these forty couples
mat they had to marry or leave the colony with
In specified time to escape criminal prosecu-
tion. Almost all of them married, and the re-
mainder moved away within the time limit
The Mound Bayou colony is probably the only
place in these United States where 100 negroes
live and there is not and never has been a crap
dive Until recently neither a playing card nor
dice could DO bought at Mound bayou. Now,
however. trade in the town from lumber camps
beyond the colony has induced q Few stores 10
carry dice. These used but little in the
colony. and all agree that there Is practically
no gambling there of any nature.
In an educational way the colony boasts of a
Baptist high school, which cost SZ,ooo; an Amer
public school I'm town with three teachers. and
four public schools at other convenient places
In the colony. In the church line there are two
Baptist churches and one parsohase valued al
| $1,000: two Christian churches, valued at 81 500
one African Methodist Episcopal e0urch and
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r.rsonaoo ,o,,,od - &c am and one Methodist

parsonage. valued at $4,000, and one Methodist
Episcopal church, valued at SSoo -.
The Mound Bayou atmosphere seems 10 nave
either attracted to ii different class or negroes
from what one finds in other portions OF tne
delta or to nave changed theni, ie ~, tbs
train at one of the large Plantations on t1 me
Riverside division, for instance ana one ilhus
seething mass of black humanity each, Doth
men and women, VlelnS with the olHer 10 seG
which can be most sporty in dress, looks ana
actions. The young bucks try to get the loudest
colored sweaters and roll their trousers knee hSh
to show the fanciest of blue socks, While they
wade buckShot mud III - kangaroo garter SHOES,
all bought on credit Get Off at Mound baSou
and one sees sober quiet, neatly but appro-
prfately dressed people. each seeming 10 nave
due regard for the feelings as well as the rights
or the others .
No article on Mound Bayou should fail TO
contain something of the remarkable man VINO
founded It, was its life Tor years anu sun 's Ii
an active part in it, Small OF stature ana shn
or physique he is coal black and has the usuai
negro features, except that he mas Ioreheau
or Caucasian shape His hands ana rect are
smaller and far better shaped, especially ms
finger nails, than is usual with his race, hut II
is only when no begins TO talk that one reaizes
what a clear accurate mind he has and what
wide vocabulary he uses with accuracy anu
without apparent effort. HIS thouSnls anu
power to express them either verbally or Ia
writing those of man or education Woe
reading, elaboration and thought lie seems
10 realize the difference between ms race ana
the dominant one and TO sincerely desire 70 90
what he can TO promote the common weiafe.
aa 70 do this without ostentaSiou ~ .
has mission. 1t is to stop the influx or young
negroes into cities and TO induce theh 10 1arh
under more scientific conditions
Your people and ours IN the cities, ne SAID
live at too rapid a pace. 1t burns people up.
You have 10 have the Young blood from tho
country, because your own supply OF tuel would
soon burn out but for this. Yet the country
cannot AFFORD 10 give you all that It has which
Is good We, too. need the young men, nope
some plan may be devised by which our young
men of sense and energy may be induced 10
stay ON the farm and by improved methods OF
farming Increase the yield of the soil 70 q point
more commensurate with It's possibilities. and
! hence more productive financially 10 the thier
of st."
Dallas. Tex. Feb. 1o.-Negroes with money have
started 10 build a new town in Lamar County.
IeNas' near Red River. sixteen miles northeast OF
faris' exclusively for me.nbers OF their race. a
uae. OF 200 acres Of land has been bought and the
work CT laying OF tho town site begun.
Inc Elan proposed Is to have a town mile long
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ana half a mile wide A sawuin Il IN course a
construction to saw up peat oak timber into rail-
road ties and red oak into shingles from ths for
ests or Red River bottoms II Is proposed TO sen
building lots 10 500 families on easy payments No
name has been chosen but that Of Booker seams
popular.
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months now closing it will pay % per cent It's
ofhcers are all negroes. a dozen OF the more
prominent negroes of the colony compose the
directory One can find the books and accounts
OF no bank kept III heater more regular
FORM The official statement showing the
lows: -