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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-06-30
Striker Assaulted Him.

Edward Gillespie. while talking with
n friend In Jackson was attacked by a
stranger who struck him a vicious
blow in the eye which knocked him
down and as he arose struck az him
with knife. but Gillespie threw up
his hand ana sustained an ugly cash.
Gillespie believes the man was a la
borer on strike, and that he was as.
saulted because he was working for 4
mason contractor who Is connected
with the Builders Exchange, which Is
fighting the strikers in the building
trades.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-06-30
Co, $1,000 Verdict.

In the circuit court for Osceola
county. Maria Hilliker. OF Dighton. has
obtained n judgment for $1,000 against
Ray Farr. a Tustin saloonke,per, and
Fred Noyack. a Dighton saloonkeeper.
and their bondsmen. Action was
brought resulting from drunken row
In which Harlan Hilliker. son and sup
port OF Maria Hilliker. was shot and
killed November 8. 1904, by one Man
ley Shearer, who was arrested and
tried in this court and found not gull
~. as the act was done during a period
when both parties were incompetent
on account OF being under the inhu-
ence u LIQUOR
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-06-30

She turned TO him with a rueful
smile. You give me credit for deeper
feelings than | possess. | am both so
shallow and so optimistic that ! al
ways think the new Is 20 be as good
as the old. For that reason am. per-
haps. easily reconciled 10 change. BE.
sides will have both-the old and
the new"
But the old will be only a memory
"a legacy"
Well" she admitted. ARE not mem
cries sweet? Do We not enjoy lega-
clear"
But they presuppose loss"
She frowned and shook. her head In
playful remonstrance. You are max
ing me gloomy; let us go below"
A little later, they Joined the others
in the cabin.
Here. about the fire was gathered
the group OF travellers. and WinsIow
and Lavender paused In the doorway
TO watch them.
The light and shadow played strange
pranks with all. IL brought into gro
tesque relief a suit OF nankeen here, a
bun waistcoat Thereon singled out for
an especial CLEAN a saucy cap or scar
let kerchief. In spite OF past difticul-
ties and a future that threatened more,
their spirits were strong, their hearts
light and undismayed At first there
had been exciting talk and speculation,
but gradually silence fell, and some
body started song.
Mrs. Creighton slipped TO the spinet
and softly played the air. while the
rest joined In the refrain:
Are we almost there-are we almost
there?"
Said dying girl as she drew near home,
Are those our poplar trees that rear
Their forms 50 high meath the Heaven
blue domeg'
The slow. sad words rolled in sonor-
Gus measure from floor To rafter. until
solemn hush fell upon all AT tnls
moment America filled the threatening
gap, and turned the tide OF sadnels
which seemed setting in. Back in the
shadow she rocked 10 and fro, aul
with the squeak OF her chair the Only
accompaniment, she sang the old ca mp
meeting hymn, in a voice loud. but
tuneful:
"wrastie. Jacob. dnylights a-breakin'.
oh. wrastle. Jacob. ! Will not let thee 30. ="
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-06-30
Fatal Confusion.

Becoming confused by two passing
trains. two men were run down by
the Grand Rapids flyer on the Mich
igan Central at Kalamazoo. George
Hicks. aged IS. son OF wealthy pa
rents. and a brother OF Robert Hicks.
hardware merchant. OF Rochester.
n. v. was dragged a long distance
and terribly mangled, death being in
Simultaneous. He had been working as
teamster. Edward Reisch, Of Grand
Rapids, lost both legs below the
knees, but he may recover
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-06-30
Dealers Victims.

Investigation by Mayor Thompson,
OF Kalamazoo. has led him to believe
that local coal dealers. instead OF be-
ing IN a combine. az he suspected. are
themselves the victims OF the coal
trust. The local association was dis.
banded June /. Ten OF the leading deal.
ers OF the city, in conference with
him. offered TO produce their books In
proof of their statement that the net
profit does not exceed 10 per cent.
Where there were formerly more than
100 jobbers 10 buy from, there are not
more than seven OF eight SO complete.
~ has the coal trust stamped out com
petition.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-06-30
Prisoners sudden Death.

Harris o. Butler was found dead on
the bathroom floor AT the Jackson pris-
on, just three minutes after remarklng
10 a convict nurse: II am feeling much
better tonight" Butler had been In the
hospital since last October, suffering
from a complication OF dropsy and
heart disease. Deceased was 60 years
OF age and came to prison February 4,
1903. from Grand Traverse county on
nine years sentence for taking lib.
critics with little girl He was mar
ried and had a family.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-06-30
Thre atens Another Murder.

Mrs. Maudc Wiseman, OF Royal
Oak. has been granted divorce from
Henry Wlseman. now serving a life
sentence at Marquette for the muir
der Of Mrs. Ellen Huss az Royal Oak
The wife alleged non-support. deser-
ton and cruelty, and when the sub
pena was served on Wiseman In Mar
quette he sent word back that If he
Is ever released his first act will be
10 murder his wife. When arrested
for the Royal Oak murder Wiseman
was serving fiyc-year term at Jack.
son.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-06-30
Tired Of LIVING.

Louis G. Human. Of Bay City,
searched In Cincinnati day and a
night. but found no trace OF his wife.
who mysterlously disappeared from a
sick bed. lie learned, however. that
she had intlmated to a friend that she
was tired OF life, owing TO continued
ill.health. and he now believes she has
committed suicide.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-06-30

PLACEsg"
saw Winslow's figure loom out OF the
fog. She was glad OF this interruption
to her unquiet brooding. Morbid fan.
cies came 10 her as unwelcome guests.
and she only smiled at Winslow. and
turned TO look again AT the foam feck.
ed path they had come
You are staring at the river regret.
fully, as though Il were n gray ribbon
unwinding between you and every.
thing good. he said
She shook her head. ION the con.
trary. Il Is bearing me along with what
love most, to everything that is most
dear.
Then you do not dread the
changer"
II do not. she replied.
Are you so tickle toward old loves,
old things, old placcs?"
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-06-30
John sweig. Of Bagley. a pioneer

John Sweig. Of Bagley. a pioneer
merchant OF Menomineo county. was
fatally injured In a saloon brawl at
Carney. John jacobson. a quarrclsome
millhand. struck him fatal blow.
breaking two OF Sweigs ribs and injur.
ing his spine.
Henry Bookeloo was appointed
street commissioner Of Kalamazoo six
weeks ago at salary OF s75 per
month. He has resigned. saying that
n man cannot be honest and make n
living out OF the position. as he must
have telephone and n horse and
buggy. Nevertheless. there are 100
nspirants for the position,
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-06-30
Second Suicide.

Gustav Boehme. aged as years. was
found dying in an alley In Monroe.
During the night he had swallowed a
large dose OF carbolic acid and died an
hour after being found. This Is the sec
ond German resident 10 end his life
within a few days. David Folderer's
body having been found In tho river
Monday.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-27
TRAINS CRASH;
SCORE KILLED
Disastrous Collision Between Pas
senger and Freight GA Seaboard.
AN IMPACT MOST DEADLY
First Reports Placed the Killed at Tween
tY-Nine and the Injured Twenty-Five.
Majority of Victims Were Negroes.

Twenty-Five persons were killed and
twenty-five injured in a head-on COL
lision between a Seaboapd Air Line
passenger train and an extra freight
train one mile from Hamlet, n. c., Sat
urday night. Nearly all those killed
were colored passengers.
The known dead are: Engineer F.
p. Lewis, of the passenger train;
Fireman Tom HILL colored, Of the pas
senger train; negro fireman, name
unknown, Of the freight; H. S. Byrd,
baggage master. Probably twenty
five others unidentified.
Railroad men, citizens and the pas
sengers who escaped injury began
working heroically to recover the dead
and injured imprisoned in the wreck
age.
Both the second and frst-class
coaches were overturned, and it is
feared that the death list will be sadly
augmented before the work OF the
rescuers is completed.
The blame for the wreck has not
been placed. The passenger train, it
is said, had no orders to meet the
freight, and it is the presumption that
the freight overlooked its orders. One
report ascribes the cause Of the wreck
to have been a lap order, stating that
the passenger train had orders to meet
the freight at Hamlet, while the
freight's orders were to meet the pas
senger train at Rockingham.
The persons injured in the wreck
were. sent to Charlotte on a special
train. There are five white and eigh-
teen colored, and these were dis
tributed among the Charlotte hospi-
tails.
A dispatch received at the Seaboard
Air Line general Offices stated
that 19 bodies and % injured per-
sons had been taken from the wreck.
The first news of the disaster that
reached the headquarters Of the road
was a brief message about midnight
reporting that a wreck had occurred
on the Seaboard at Hamlet and that
uD to the time Of the fling Of the
report the dead extricated from the
wreck numbered 10, and the injured
as then known reached %. Train No.
Al is a through train, north bound
from Florida to New York, passing
through Hamlet, which is junction
joint
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-27
Meat in the South.

The Washington Post has this TO
say about the meat scandals and the
Souths relation to them:
1T seems in order to say, however,
that at least Southern towns, cities
and communities have no right to
complain. If at any time they have
suffered, either in their stomachs or
their pockets, because Of the high
price or the unwholesome character
Of Chicago meat products, they have
only themselves toblame. There has
never been the smallest reason why
they should not feed themselves from
their own herds, flocks, fields, diaries
and barnyards. The South is rich in
farming and grazing lands, and the
inhabitants thereof can raise beef
cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry and veg
etables of the very finest quality and
in unlimited quantity if they choose.
Why need they go to Chicago, Kan
sas City, Omaha or any other distant
market for food which they can pro-
duce themselves? And if they per-
sist in a policy so unnecessary and
so improvident, they might have the
grace to realize that it is their fault
and refrain from condemnation of
others. The pastures Of the South
can turn out as good beef and NUT
ton as the stockyards of Chicago can.
Southern farmers are capable of fur
nishing as high-class butter, milk,
eggs, etc, as any farms in Iowa or
Kansas. Why, then, do not the
Southern people help themselves in
stead of calling upon Hercules to
help them and filling the air with
complaint and imprecation when he
fails to answer to their satisfaction?
I'VE do not pretend to pronounce
upon the truth, or lack of truth, in
all these nauseous denunciations of
the packing houses. We are quite
sure, however, that the Southern peo-
pie would be in much better business
to set about the task of caring for
themselves. 1t is not at all necessary
for them to be dependent on import
ed food Of any kind. When they be-
wall the hardships inflicted on them
BY the Western trusts, they remind
US of nothing so much as of the
Texas ranch owner, thirty years ago,
denouneing the quality Of the con-
densed milk he got from Minnesota.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-27
BY VOTE OF PEOPLE
Railroad commissioners OF Georgia
Will be EiecIed ii This House Bill
Becomes a Law.

By the largest vote recorded at inc
present session of the Georgia mouse
Of representatives the bill of Mr..
Kelly of Glascock to make the state
railroad commissioners elective by d.
rect vote of the people, was passed
Wednesday by a vote eof 1872 to 4,
and Immediately transmitted to the
senate.
Under the terms Of the bill a sue
cessor to Commissioner Joseph Nj
Brown, whose term expires October
Is, 1907, will be elected by the people
at the general election to be held in
October, 1906, a second commissioner
will be elected in October, 1908, to
succeed the commissioner whose term
expires October Is, 1909, and at the
election to be held in October, 1910,
the third commissioner will be elect
ed to succeed the incumbent, whose
term expires October Is, 1911. The
term of Office of the commissioners
VIII remain as they now are, six years
each.
DR. T. J. M. Kelly Of Glascock, the
author of the bill, made the following
statement with regard to the bill:
The measure was intended in no
sense as one of political significance.
Nor is it aimed at any of the present
railroad commissioners. It was pro-
posed in Difference to the growing
sentiment of the people of the state
that these officers should be elected
by the people.
Il have the highest respect for each
Of the five candidates now running for
governor, but the bill was not drawn
and advocated by me in the interest,"
Of any of these candidates"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-27
KNOCKS OUT SUFFRAGE BILL.
Disfranchisement Measure Not Favored BY
Georgia Legislative Committee.

DisfranChisement Measure Not Favored by
Georgia Legislative Committee.
The proposition to disfranchise the
negroes of Georgia received a decis-
i've blow Wednesday afternoon when
considered in the committee Of the
house Of representatives on constitu-
tional amendments.
The caption of the bill provides that
the constitution shall be so amended
that in addition to the qualifications
now required by law of all voters
there shall be required an educational
qualification. This qualification IN
cludes the grandfather" exemption
clause.
Il move" said Mr.. Hall of Bibb,
chat we report the bill with the
recommendation that it do not pass"
"All in favor of the notion" said
Chairman Perry, will signify it by
saying aye" There was a chorus
Of ayes.
"All opposed will signify it by say
ing no"
Not a voice was raised, and thus
petered out a second attempt in the
house Of representatives to disfran-
chise negroes in Georgia.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-27
Soy Beans and Cowpeas.

The soy bean and cowpea may be
successfully grown on almost any soil
of reasonable fertility. Like the
common field pea, both require good
drainage and easily suffer from eX-
cessive wet, but will do much better
during periods of dry weather. For
ahe best results a good corn soil
should be chosen. If properly inocu-
lated, both crops will do we'll where
corn would suffer seriously from lack
Of nitrogen. For use in a regular ro-
tation they should precede corn or
winter wheat. In the latter case the
ground does not need to be plowed
for the wheat.
The preparation of the soil should
be similar to that best suited to corn.
1t should be deeply plowed and the
seed bed made fine and mellow. A
Nose, deep seed bed is essential to
success.
Both the soy bean and cow pea are
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-27
LABOR ENTERS POLITICAL ARENA.
Promised "Campaign PrOgr0m" is Sent
forth by federation Officials.

The executive council of the Ameri,
can Federation cf Labor, Sunday,
made good it's declaration of several
months ago to enter the field of poll
tics in the interest of the trade union
movement and to exhort all members
and friends of organized labor to work
for the election to political Offices OF
men known to be favorable to la
boris cause From the headquarters
of the federation at Washington the
council has issued its campaign pro-
gram" addressed ''to all organized la
Dor and friends in the United
States
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-27
SOUTHERN /" FARM /" NOTES.
.d--=p ODD
y0PIcS INTEREST PLANTER S7OcEAS0 GqoWEs


warm weather plants and should not
be sown early in the season. AS a
general rule the best time to SOW is
after corn planting is finished and
the soil has become thoroughly
warm. The seed should be deeply
covered. 1t should be sown in drills,
and the crops cultivated like corn I'M
til the soy bean blooms and the COW
pea begins to vine. For grain pro-
duction, drilling and cultivating are
always best, but for hay production
fair results may be secured from
broadcast seeding on ground free Of
weeds. The rows should be thirty
two inches apart for the soy beans
and twenty-four inches apart for the
cowpea, and both seeded at the rate
of twenty to twenty-five pounds OF
seed per acre for the medium-sized
varieties. Seeding may be done with
wheat drill set at two bushels per
acre on the wheat scale, and with
the holes not needed stopped up.
Thick seeding is detrimental to seed
production.
Some soils need to be inoculated
with the proper bacteria for one or
both crops before satisfactory results
can be secured. This need can only
be determined by trial and by exam
ination of the roots for the nodules.
If needed, incubation may be best
accomplished by sowing before the
last narrowing when preparing the
seed bed, 200 or 300 pounds per
acre of soil taken from field where
the crops have been grown and the
bacteria are known to exist. With
out the bacteria the crops must Sc
cure their nitrogen from the soil,
and under such conditions draw
heavily upon its fertility.
For hay production the cowpea
will generally give best results. 1t
should be cut when the first pods be-
gin to ripen and cured as in the case
OF clover. Either the EARLY Black
eye, Whlppoorwill, New Era, Michi-
gan Favorite, Iron, Clay, Red Ripper
or unknown varieties may be used.
For grain production either crop
may be used in the South, but in the
northern portion of Indiana the soy
bean will usually be most profitable.
The Ito San, Early Browns and Me-
dunn Early yellow (late) are among
the best varieties.
Harvesting should be done when
most of the leaves have fallen and
most of the pods are ripe. An old
fashioned self-rake reaper or a now
er with a side delivery attachment
will be found satisfactory for har-
vesting. Threshing may be done
with the ordinary threshing machine,
with the lower concave removed and
replaced by a board and run at low
speed. A corn shredder may also be
used for threshing "a. 7. Wiancko,
Purdue University.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-27
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FoREs-
TREE.

Easy to Read if You Take Boring
and Know How to Interpret Them.
The forester reads the history of
tree in great detail. After takir
out few .borings" to the center .
the tree at different heights and cour
Ing the rings on them he may sp
you such yarn as this;
This tree is $50 years old-G
rings at the basel During its fir
five yea1 it grew only seven inch
Gas rin4s seven inches N&from
basel evidently it then began
touch crdFns with other sapings,
It took squirt and put on ffte
inches d year steadily till it was
years oil (40 rings "A IL feet abe
ground
at wa not growing as fast ais
neighboB however, for at this pt
It begar to be oyersA led, AID
growth .eGlined for the mex ea1 ye
to as lit1 as four inches a year
rings at48 feet and SO at 50 feet
Just sn time to save its life, 81
thing hbpened to its big neight
presumably a wind-storm-let's
that void be in 18O6-and it re
ed a steady growth of about six in
year. having passed its ia
growinglt time.
Its growth in thickness do
seem to have varied much; abol
inch evsry three years; but it
faster and faster in volume, of &C
at it's legiht increased; a little
a cubic foot a year in its priT
life, I should Judge
ABBOT thirty years ago it re
maturitr and stopped growth
height Go rings at the top
main stsm), and now it is apr
ing old age (the last rings are
thin). Hold on a minute; hf
false ring-twenty-forty-f'
years buck. Two very thin
see? instead of one thick one.
that something interrupted thu
ing season-probably a late fN
us ask the oldest inhabitant.'
And the chances are ten to
oldest inhabitant remembers t
spring Of 1860 and has heard
the great wind in 1864
Magazine.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-27
LYNCHlNG cASs IS APPEALED.
Lower Court Quashes Indictments Against
Alleqed Savers Of Johnson.

Lower Court Quashes Indictments Against
Alleged SIayeTs of Johnson.
Judge Thomas J. Shaw, presiding
at the special term of Union county
superior court at Monroe, N. c., We'd
nesday afternoon, entertained mo-
ton to quash the indictments against
the alleged lynchers of J. V. Johnson,
on the ground that they could not
properly be brought in Union coun-
ty. The counsel for the state except
ed and appealed to the supreme court.
The twenty defendants were held in
$4,000 bond each for their appearance
at the next term Of Union superior
court, by which time decision may
have been reached by the states higA-
est court.
The case of Zeke Lewis is the one
at issue, and if the supreme court
holds that the effect of the revisal
of the code by which a portion of
the statute was not brought forward,
has the effect of annulling the provis-
ion for trying the case in another
county, they will doubtless be re-
manded to Arson, the county in which
the lynching occurred for trial. If
the court holds otherwise, the cases
will be heard at some future term
OF court in Union county.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-27
LlNEMEN'S STRIKE INEFFECTIVE.
Southern Bell Telephone Company and Em-
nluNes Settle Trouble.

Officials of the Southern Bell Tele-
phone Company announce that the
strike of the linemen and wire work
ers that has been in existence for
some weeks. has been called off as
a result of a conference held in At
lanta. The strikers were contending
for recognition of the union, which
Manager Peter Nix states las not
been granted by the company. All OF
the strikers who have not been sig
nplly active against the interests of
the company during the strike will be
reinstated.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-27
CHILDREN LOSE LIFE IN FIRE.

We're Cut Off from Escape by Flames ia
Burning Home.
Two children of Mr.. and Mrs. R..
w. Wimbish of Savannah lost their
lives in a fire which destroyed the
home OF their grandfather, Mr.. w. G..
Jordan, at Fort Valley, Wednesday
night.
All the inmates of the house we're
asleep and before the fire was dis
covered it had made such Roadway
that it was impossible to get into
the bed room where the two children
were sleeping.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-27
BACK TO PULPIT
What Food Did For a OF

A minister of Elizabeth
how Grape-Nuts food br
back to his pulpit: "Son
ago I had an attack of wi
to be La Grippe, which l.
complete state of collapse
fered for some time wi
prostration. My appetite
lost flesh until I was a me
life was a burden to me,
est in everything and
everybody save my precio
"Then on the recomm
some friends I began
Grape-Nuts food. At thai
transferable skeleton, wi
lite and hardly able to
the room; had ugly dreal
no disposition to entertai
tertained and began to S
Il finally gave up the j
istry, indeed I could moi
thoughts on any subject,
almost a hermit. After
using the Grape-Nuts foo
time l discovered that I
on new life and my appei
improve; l began to slice
my weight increased ste
lost some so pounds, bl
new food regime I have
most my former weigh
greatly improved in eve
Il feel that I owe mu
Nuts and can truly rec
food to all who require
rebuilding agent delici
and always welcome"
by Postum Co., Battle
A trUe natural road to I
or hold it, is by. use
Grape-Nuts and cream,
night. Or have the foe
some of the many del
given in the little recip
in pkgs.
Ten days trial of Ora
many. There's a reas
Look in pkgs. for a
famous little book, 9"
MELVILLE.