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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-15
OIL MILL FOR MAXTON
The Mill to be Built This Summer.

The Scottish Chief is authorized 10
state that a cotton oil mill will be
built in Maxton this summer, and will
be ready for operations by the first of
next season. The site has been pur-
chased, and the necessary stock sub
scribed. The company will be capital
lied at 100000, and the capacity sixty
tons. 1t will be located ON the Sea-
board Air Line and A. c. L. railroads,
on the 5-acre lot purchased during the
past week from Dr. j. D. Groom -
Scottish Chief
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-15

Mr. r. F. DeVane. Of Red Springs.
is registered at the Orton.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-15
The southern,s Double-Track

The Southern Hallway double track
going southwark Is in town The force
has laid the iron to the lower cross
ing and can be used little later when
the ballasting is done. In the mean
time the grading is being done in sec
tons between High Point and Spencer
and this end OF il will be almost cum
pIeted by fall.-High Point Enterprise.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-15

The Southern Baptist Convention.
Chattanooga, Tenn, May 12.-Tne
Southern Baptist convention today de-
voted seevrai hours to the affairs ot
the Sunday school board. The re-
.mainder of the session was given up
to the welfare of the seminaries under
the jurisdiction OF the convention.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-15
Body Of An Aged Woman
Found in Trunk
DEATH BY sTRANGULAT|OM
Wilhelm Meyer and a Woman Ar
rested for the Crime

The Victim Was a Mrs. Vogel of Will
dunger-The Trunk Was Left With
an Express Company at Frankfort
on the Main With Instructions 20
Keep IL for Three Months-Meyer Is
Furniture Dealer and a Native of
Gernlany-The Man Refused 10 Talk
and the Woman Was Apparently
ignorant OF the Crime for Which
She Was Arrested.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-15

CONTINUED on Fifth Page.)
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-15
AIIisOn'S Amendments to Rate
Bill Adopted
PARTY LINES WERE DRAWN
Sensational Features We're the
Order of the Day

Democrats Charged With Doing Little
to Meet the Demands of the People
for Railroad Legislation-Bailey's 5
Criticism of the President Was in
Response to a Speech by Mr.. Carter
Contrasting His Course With That of
the Texas SenatOr-Senator LaFol-
Iette Continued to Vote With the
DemOcrats-The Debate Will Prob
q
ably Continue Through Next Week.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
HAVILAH'S MINES KEEP
THE EXPERTS GUESSING
Los Angeles and Pasadena Capital
Keeps Clear Creek District, Near
Bakersfield, ,ActIve-Fortunes Made
Out of the Ground

Special to The Herald.
HAVILAH, Cal, Dec. 9.-Several
mining experts who have visited this
camp from San Francisco and Los
Angeles unite in saying that this will
be larger and richer one than Ne
vadas boasted diggings in years to
come.
For in Havilah it is claimed that
mining and milling can be done for
one-third of the expense connected
with Nevada claims.
The leading mines here are the St.
Charles, controlled by the Hearsts; !;
the McKidney, Sunrise, Sunset and
Jennie Lind, the Old Uncle Abe, the
President, the Friday and the Old
Height and the King Solomon.
The last two named and some others
belong to the King Solomon Mining
company, made UP mostly of Pasa-
dena men, headed by former Senator
Hahn.
There are other notable mines con-
trolled in Los Angeles, such as the
Margaret Russell owned by J.. J.
Hummel, and the Rockford, which pro-
duced over 100000 in eighteen months
The Warrington mine, which belongs
to st. Paul men, will doubtless be d
producer soon, the only drawback hay
| ing been differences concerning policy
The camp has two good copper leads
as well as gold.
The camp was discovered by Ben.
Jamin T. Mitchell, Alexander Reid
George Mckay and DIR. c. de la Borde
known as the French doctor-all from
Los Angeles.
The district is known as the Cleal
| Creek mining district and comprises
the whole region drained by Cleal
creek and Copper branch and bounded
by the Summit mountains.
This group of men located thirty
six ledges In the district, among which
were the Rockford, Eagle, Delphi OF
Uncle Abe, now known as the Presi
dent; Cape Horn, Navarro, Alma No
/ and 2, Lyon, Marengo Nos. 1, 2 an(
3, Tyrone, Lexington, McKidney anc
others.
The first mill erected in this camr
was the Pioneer by Joseph H. Thorn
as. The first run of rock was from tn,
Dijon, which paid at the rate Of So
per ton. The next mill was built by
j. II. Freeman in 1865. The first rocl
crushed from this mill was from Mic,
/ Wander Park g. Co.'S mines. and pale
over $4,000 from twenty-seven tons o.
rock and the yield was over $500 ton
The gold was saved from the bat
teries alone, there being no other mod,
OF saving it at the mill.
The Rockford rock paid $3.50 per tor
and the Delphi, Uncle Abe or Presi
dent paid $3.50 ton the same weel
and II was believed that considering
the facilities for saving the gold a
the time the yield for the like amoun
of unpieked rock In the state was un
precedented.
There were twelve stamp mills II
the camp in 1866 and eighteen the mex
year. All Of these were burned dowr
at night. ignited by an insane man.
The Confidence Mining and Mlllinl
company, controlled by Pasadena
South Pasadena and Los Angeles per
sons, Is a promising property. Sec
retary Uriah Smith OF South Pasa
dena is expected here this week
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
PROV ES
REBATES
Garfield Shows Guilt
of Standard
Says Publicity Is Best
Trust Buster
Urges Necessity for Federal Inspection
and Supervision Of Corporations
Engaged In Interstate
Commerce
Bv Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
WASHINGTON Dec. 9.-The annual
report of Commissioner of Corporations
James r. Garfield, made public today,
devotes special attention to the investi-
cation of the transportation of oil
and the operation of the Standard OIL
company.
During the investigation of the oil
industry" says the report, ut was dis
covered that very widespread system
of railway discrimination existed in
favor of the Standard Oil company
affecting a very large proportion of the
country and resulting substantially in
giving to the Standard Oil company
an overwhelming advantage in trans
portation in almost all sections of the
country; that the system has been in
existence for a number of years and
that largely by virtue of it the Stand
ard had been able to restrict or elimi-
nate competition throughout many
sections Of the country and thereafter
reap the benefits of monopoly.
During the fiscal year indictments
containing S193 counts were returned
by the various grand juries as the re-
suit of this investigation.
"a most striking and important re-
suit Immediately following the investi-
cation was that the railroads Cancelled
nearly all the secret rates, illegal or
improper determinations and in many
cases the determinations in open rates.
The shippers of oil advise the bureau
that for the first time in many years
they are now rapidly obtaining equality
of treatment from the transportation
companies"
Commissioner Garfield urges again
the necessity for the establishment of
federal inspection and supervision of
the greater industrial corporations en-
of the right to engage in interstate
commerce is suggested as the penalty
for proved violation of the law. The
report says that the work of the year
strilzingly demonstrates the value of ef-
ficient publicity for the correction of
corporate abuses
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
.lscHER'S THEATER
.RPHEUM THEATER

II The Big show for Little Money,
McCARTHf'S
All the Fischer favorites and chorus In
cal farce comedy. Mats. every day exc.
Ladies' Souvenir Matinee Thursdays.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
CHRISTMAS GOODS
WELL PROTECTED
Great Precautions, Necessary to Pre-
vent Shoplifters from Plying Vo-
cation During Rush of Holi-
day Season

All the large department stores of
Los Angeles have laid in their COM
plete stocks for Christmas and the
work of properly displaying the wares
before the eyes of the customers is now
on. Great care has been taken In Sc
lecting these stocks, but this care is as
nothing compared with the precautions
taken to guard it from thieves.
ALI the department stores have regu-
lar detectives on their salary lists dur
ing the entire year, but these forces
have been greatly enlarged during the
Christmas season and experienced thief
catehers are on duty in the aisles and
behind the counters each day. Sew
eral women detectives, greatly feared
by shoplitters, as they have done duty
in many of the largest eastern cities,
are now in Los Angeles and expect to
capture several much wanted women
who make a practice of robbing stores
of valuable silks and are said to be in
this city at the present time.
Woman Detective Clever
One of the women detectives is at
tached to the force of a well known
private detective agency and was sent
to this city from Denver, where she
has been on duty for several months.
She has captured many noted criminals
during the last eight years, her prin-
cipal line of work being after mem
bers of the shoplifting fraternity.
All the private detective agencies
with offices in Los Angeles have agents
working in the different stores, and al
though a great deal is stolen the very
fact that crooks know the detectives
are on duty causes them to hesitate
about stealing more than they do and
thus a large amount of goods is saved
the proprietors.
One of the local stores has force
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10

LAST THOUSANDS PEOPLE WANTED TO SEE
old HEIDELBERG" WE'RE UNABLE TO sE-
CURE SEATS IN ORDER ACCOMMODATE n
THIS HOUSE WHO DEFERRED GETTING THEIR TICKETS
TOO LATE THE BE1.AsCo THEATBR HAS SECURED CON-
THE MESSRS AMER
1CAN RIGHTS OF THIS GREAT PLAY, ANOTHER WEEKS
PERFORMANCES PRESENTATION BEI.AsCo THIS
WEEK WILL BE THE LAST TIMES old HEIDELBERG"
PLAYED BY A STOCK COMPANY. RICHARD MANS
YEAR
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
WEEKS FORECAST
OF WORLD NEWS
Rv Assoclnled prnas-

@ .isa @ % sas @ q % sa$ tine ] fPs sg1 q; PsiS T @ % s $ % ssas
sSons risht t'Of senator
aeiy after the close los the routine mSTnns while the sepH
sts 3 S pg9S'Sanss @ @ on m that sgP will be % led aft e pe 9 sg'
DEMOCRATS PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
1sT" that Si i 1 @ h% @ % upon on @
provoke discussion ana IS eSpedted @ e that some of Of the
o There % 5 also % 5 ID & the % subject sim
orthogphy Congressional
FoRTFlcATIoNs BILL WILL
oe% @ Sa @ BHT d @dd s@an
e s @ ship aIs s
holidays ls''' can
ORATORS DISCUSS
% In the sGSt9 Senator BSUws will TUESDAY % the debate on the
n ned a SdoPon his Of @ Mr.
soution SisRSa, H ia5s
snS s 8es 5 G
VII S pSSsS a @
bo epTess % @ % @ keep as e @ % h on F a poss5 n Du
ALeEcRAs TREATY
'af after v RReea s @ T The S 4tafS
BY aoaueenee @
t m Be y 's s %
HOLIDAY ADJOURNMENT
OF the @ qs n ssy' s a s1
FRANCE FACES ACUTE RELIGIOUS CRISIS
p T pd 5 % @ go 5 & 1 Mh Paris D a by t a B
ePnen @ g Se with snd @ M ou I 1eRsh I &
pareny authoritative the
INCOME AND INHERITANCE BE DISCUSSED
Harvard
by
combination will Chicago = -
KAHN WILL DISCUSS JAPANESE QUESTION
evening -
f.
Hekmer, Y Monday mornin ~ ~
BASEBALL LEAGUES ELECT OFFICERS
meeting of the National League be
in
held leagues headquarters
meeting tbe
in
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10


"As soon as L became president
began to receive letters from Mrs
Storer asking for the promotion of Mr.
Storer, and letters from both of them
complaining that the work in Madrid
was uncongenial, and complaining also
OF the character and standing of varl-
Gus people in the public service.
"On September 22, 1901, eight days
after President McKinley's death, Mrs
Storer wrote me, urging that l should
appoint Mr.. Storer to the cabinet an6
specifying as a desirable lace the wal
department. of which you were the
head, the letter running: Please give
him either the navy or war.
! pray that Bellamy, who so richly de-
serves 1t, shall have chance for hon
orable service at home to his country
"When ! explained that I did not In
tend to remove any one or make any
changes I'm the cabinet at the time she
wrote me on October II, suggesting the
embassy at London and Paris as M
places for her husband, and stating
that Mr.. Choate and Gen. Porter We're
not proper persons 10 be ambassadors
IN view OF the intense Indignation OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Storer at his being re-
moved from office now there is a Ger.
tain element OF the comic in their at
tempt thus to get me to remove either
you or Mr. Choate or Mr.. Porter for
the purpose OF giving Mr.. Storer either
a cabinet position or the embassy IN
England or France. / received many
letters Of the general tenor OF those
mentioned, enumerating their hard,
ships and services and enemies.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10

st explained repeatedly that 4
friendship and admiration for Arc
bishop Ireland (Which is like my frien
ship and admiration for Bishop La
renee OF the Episcopal church a
Bishop Cranston of the Method
church, like my friendship and admir-
ton for many clergymen OF ma
denominations-Ba Lutheran
Methodists, Congregationalists, Presh
terians and others) would make !
pleased to see any good fortune atte
him, or any churchmen like him
any creedi but that / could not intC
fere for his promotion, or indeed,
any way In the eccleslastic ways
any church.
This was also the position I took
all private conversations and the q
sertion that in any private cohvers
tion / took an opposite position frG
what l was repeatedly expressing
writing Is not only an untruth but
absurd untruth, for 1 would, OF cour
not say privately to any one the O
posite OF what 1 was repeatedly WI
Ing to that same person
"Mr. Storer asserts that he had M
Storer and various other people afi
conversation with me put down mel
oranda as to what they remembered
had said. II such action was taken,
was, OF course, simply dishonorab
No one of them ever showed me
would have Yentured TO show me a
such memoranda, and II Is nonser
10 expect to bind me by a memora
dun, the existence Of which was &c
cealed from me.
"The storsrs were my guests at {
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
ADJUSTMENTS

Tonights performance will begin the eleventh week
of this wonderfully fine play the Belasco stage within
two years. nothing like this great record has ever been
known in the history of stock companies.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
Heidelberg

Will this continue pack the Belasco hear overowng.
sale makes this
who last week turned will do well get their
early undeniaby finest performance of
greatest play that has occupied local stage The CHARM the
beauty Od Heidelberg irresistible
Some people in Los Angeles have viewed the play twenty times
and coming again this week.
prices
ar
wEEK:-THE SUCCESS. $50
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
DEMOCRATS Will DISCUSS pREsIpEMr,s MESSAGE


The fortfcatons
will
hopeful that 1t
fu of securing favorable the ship subsidy bill in modera
this 1t
with this measure before the Christmas holidays.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
INCOME AND INHERITANcE TAX ro RE DISCUSSED


The eofB
be
One of to
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10

of seventeen detectives on duty at the
present time. Twelve of these detec-
tives are women selected from among
the shrcwdest employees in the store,
who are well acquainted with the
stock and with customers. They ar
rive at the store shortly after the
opening hour and remain until the
store closes.
A great many shoplifters who are
caught, even with stolen goods in their
possession, are not arrested, but are
allowed to go with a warning. The
reason for this is that the proprietors
do not wish their customers to know
that private detectives are employed,
as many persons hesitate to feel at
home and handle goods in the stores If
they think they are being watched.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10

Spring st. bet. I'd and Sd.
Both Phones 1447.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
Local Detectives Active

The detectives of the city police de-
partment are also detailed to watch
the stores and each day several of them
visit the different department stores
and see if they can recognize any sus-
picious person. If they do, they at once
watch that persons movements and
if anything wrong is noticed the man
ager of the store is notified and the
one suspected is taken to the office,
where an investigation is made.
The recent capture of the Sanchez
family, said to be one of the boldest
outfits of shoplifters which has ope-
rated here for years, shows that the
police must keep constantly on the
alert in order to cope with the thieves.
The four members of this family had
only been working four days, yet in
that time are said to have stolen $4,000
worth of silks, clothing and women's
flnery. Other shoplifters known to be
as bad are said to be in the city at the
present time and operating in the diff
ferent stores, and every effort is being
made to capture them.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10

time when, as they assert, they made
these memoranda of private CONVERSE
tion with me. As a matter of fact the
statements they allege me to have
made were not made save in so far as
what they allege to have said betore
and after I wrote to them.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-08
ROBES OF WHITE.

The Dcseret News, the organ Of the
Mormon church, desires to know in
what spring of purity have the robes
of American antagonists of the HE
rarchy "been made white that they
can take place on the Judgment
seat
Considering that this supercilious
breakers of this generation, comes from
men who throughout their lives have
been accusing the whole world of apos-
tasy from God, and accusing all the
Christian women Of this land and all
the Christian men with dwelling in the
midst of vice, il must be admitted that
the inquiry reaches the final depth of
the ridiculous. If robes must be made
white in some spring of purity before
the wearer may SIT in judgment, what
right has Joseph L, Smith to condemn
murder or arson or theft or sexual
crime? He is stepped in sin. If every
crime committed by him willfully and
knowingly, against the statutes Of his
country and against what he claims
10 be a revelation from God. could be
marked upon his robes they would be
blackcr than the wings of Beelzebub
or reddcr than the smock of a butcher
in the shambles. This wretch dares to
demand that before his crimes shall be
| reprehcnded every man who condemns
him must show robes of pure white.
| Why, the boastfuI villain stands before
| the world and cries out his own in
| fanny he goes TO Washington and in
| presence of the assembled councils Of
| the Nation, procaims that he lives in
d riot of sexual sin. lie acknowledges
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-08
INSOLENT MUSSERISM.

Musserism Will not down A promi
nent man has called the attention
Of The tribune to the recital, in
Whitneys alleged history Of Utah,
of the appearance of A. Milton
Musser before the Third District court
AT Salt Lake City when Judge Zane
sat upon The bench and when Musscr
was arraigned for unlawful cohahita.
tion. Al the request Of this friend
the matter is published in this issue
of Tho Tribune,
There are several fine touches in the
account. The exultant tone which
Whitney adopts in treating of the
matter, and the insolent irony which is
attempted by Musser in his interroga-
tion Of the court make the matter, at
this reading and at this distance Of
time, piece of sarcasm worthy of
close attention, Mr.. Musser would
not al the time promise to obey the
law That would be desertion Of his
wives And yet MI Musser, at a
later time, gave precisely such
promise to the Nation-and then
broke it, 1t is one of the interesting
features Of this case that the Nor
mon polygamists thought 1T would be
desertion of their wives 10 promise
the courts 10 obey the law, but
they did not think il would be de-
sertion to make this promise TO the
President of the United States. 1t
must be evident that in the day when
Musser appeared before Judge Zane
it had not occurred 10 them that they
could promise 10 desert and then, by
violating their word. could avoid the
desertion They do things easier now.
They promise not 10 go into polygamy.
and then they enter il, and then they
deny that they have entered il. 1t is
a case of eating the cake and hav.
ing il also They desert their wives
and still possess them. They abandon
polygamy, and yet they practice it,.
They live the law, and yet break it,
They keep the covenant. and yet smash
it. They do not interfere in politics,
and yet control politics.
On top of it all they are thoroughly
satisfied with the situation, for no
longer must they ask Judge Zane to in
terpret the law for them, They in
tcrpret it for him. The hierarchs are
the law-there is some suspicion that
they are its Interpretation also.
The spirit which Musser showed be-
fore the court is the spirit of the
polygamists today-an insolent disre-
gard of law and decencv.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-08
CONDEMNS HERSELF7

After the arrest Of President William
C.. Parkinson of the Mormon Hyrum
stake of Zion in Cache county, Utah,
followed by the arrest of his counselor,
A. NJ Israclson, and their arraignment
in court upon their own acknowledged
offensc of taking from Mormon bishop
who WAS Judge of election, two of the
TO use among voters, The Tribune
stated that the people of Cache county
were on trial, There were rumors that
the two dignltarics of the Mormon
church had taken an immunity bath in
their own cccleslasticlsm, and that the
prosecution would be mere perfume
tory proceeding in the dis
mssal of the action against these vio.
lators of law and their complete rcstora-
tion to public power. There was some
reason for the fear that this rumor
was correct, since II was known that
not one citizen OF Cache county had
been brave enough 10 file complaint;
the offcnsc was known of all men, bat
the officers Of the law and the people
declined to take action: and it was left
for citizen of Utah, resident in an
other county, TO initiate proceedings.
Under these circumstances, with the
rumors rife, it was only fair to assume
that the tendency would be toward
making ridicule of the law and its adj
ministratiou, and that unless Cache
county should arouse herself to her own
sense of imperiled reputation the bal
lot thieves would escape all legal
consequences of their own doing.
When the case was dismissed against
Parkinson and Israelson by the Justice
of the Peace in the preliminary hear
ing. on the absurd ground that they
claimed TO have no criminal intent, 1t
was manifest that the committing mag
istrate had chosen the baser part. The
offensc being acknowledged, and boast
fully acknowledged. by the ballot
thieves, it was ridiculous to say that
they could escape by merely avowing
that they had committed a crime but