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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20
SNUFF AS A
LIBERATOR
Crockett County Sheriffs Lively Elk
perience With a Prisoner.

HUMBOLDT, Tenn, July ia
story of very original and unusual
method of escape being taken to pris-
on has reached here from Alamo,
Crockett county, the Sheriff of that
county being the victim.
Several days ago two men were ar
rested in Crockett for stealing horses,
and Sheriff Henderson and Deputy
were on their way to the Alamo jail
with the prisoners in separate bug
gies, the Sheriff being considerably
in advance of the Deputy. While rid
ing along the road the Sheriff's pris-
oner. in spite of his handouts. manag-
ed to get his hands in pocket and
bring forth a double handful of snuff,
which he dashed in Mr.. Hendersons
face. The Sheriff was momentarily
blinded by the snuff. and although he
grabbed his prisoner. he succeeded in
getting loose. AS soon as Mr.. Hender-
son could see he started in pursuit
of the prisoner and called to 12-year-
old boy whom he saw working near
his home, to get his gun and stop the
fugitive. 1t is reported that the boy
promptly secured his gun and fired
several times at the prisoner, and sue
ceeded in recapturing him. When the
Deputy came up and saw what had
happened he made search of his
prisoners pockets and found large
supply of snuff, which he had evident
ly intended using fir the same purpose.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20
TO WELCOME BRYAN
Plans Mapped Out by Committee at
New York.

NEW YORK, July 13.-Plans for the
reception to be extended to William
j. Bryan in this city upon his return
the last week in August from a tour
around the world were mapped out
today by the plan and scope commit
tee appointed by the Commercial
Travellers Antitrust League. Lewis
Nixon presided.
On his arrival at the Battery the
morning of Aug. 80, Mr.. Bryan will be
met by the reception committee and
will be escorted up Broadway to the
Victoria Hotel, where he will rest I'M
til the evening reception at Madison
Square Garden.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleve-
land, will preside in the evening. Gov.
Folk, of Missouri, is Chairman of the
reception committee, on which Dem
ocratic Senators aud Congressman,
Democratic Governors and May
ors and Chairmen of Demo
cratic States and National Commit
tees will be invited to serve as honor
airy members.
Former Governor William L. Doug
las, of Massachusetts, was selected to
head a committee to secure the coop
Grafton of business interests of the
country in the reception. Alex Troup,
of Connecticut, has announced that he
would bring a State delegation from
his State, and many other State dele
cations are expected.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20
COLUMBIA POST
OFFICE ROBBED
TWO NEGRO BOYS SECURE THOU
SANDS OF DOLLARS IN
CHECKS AND MONEY.
poBgED THE INDIVIDUAL
BOXES OF PATRONS.
Henry Clay Evans Wilkes, Lee Tin
dell And Will Brown, colored
Under Arrest.
Good morning.

Good morning.
Have you been missing your mail,
and blessed out the postal officials
for the past few days? Well it wasn't
their fault this time. Henry Clay
Evans Wilkes says he is responsible,
though he willingly shares his respon-
sibility with Lee Tindel, and the police
think Will Brown had hand in it.
All parties are colored.
Beginning Friday, their were num-
erous complaints at the postoffice of
missing mail. The complaints con-
tinued through Saturday, and Post
master Hughes and assistants were
puzzled. The Herald was one of the
losers, and went so far as TO tele-
phone Postmaster Edmund Hughes at
Mt Pleasant in regard to special
letter Mr.. Hughes was positive he
had mailed it, and one of the clerks
at the Columbia post office was almost
positive he had received it, but the let
ter could not be found.
Sunday, Mr. W. F. Embry found
big bundle of letters and checks in an
clubhouse at his home. He brought
his find to the postofice and sug-
gested that Henry Clay Evans Wilkes,
who was working for his brother, Mr..
Wiley Embry might shed some light
on the find.
officers Goad Morgan, Mclean,
White and Peyton took the matter up.
Henry Clay Evans was arrested and
some checks were found in his pocket.
He ad Aitted that he had been robbing
the bo les in the postoffice, many of
which are never locked, but stand with
the combination turned on, so that
any one can open them. Henry Clay
implicated Lee Tindel, who was also
arrested.
The two boys are about IS years
of age, and the officers were satisfied
that some older head was back of the
robbery. so they questioned them.
Will Brown is the negro, who killed
Lewis Hewlin, colored with rock a
few weeks since over on College Hill,
and upon trial in the Circuit Court,
was found not guilty and released.
His house was searched and $22 of the
money and some more checks were re-
covered, and Will was also arrested.
1t is not known how much the boys
secured in checks and money. The
amount recovered is about $4,000, but
some checks were probabaly lost or
destroyed and the amount may run to
$4,000 or more. OF course the checks
do not constitute a loss, as the negroes
could not endorse them so that any
one would cash them, and the parties
to whom they were sent would soon
discover their loss and secure dupli-
Gates It will be hard to trace the
money loss however, and the robbery
has been the cause of considerable
worry and inconvenience in local bus
mess circles
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20
LADIES AND
BOY INJURED
On Account Of Bridge on the Mt. Pleas
ant Pike Being Out of Repair.

4 decrepid bridge on the Mt. Pleas
ant pike resulted in the painful injury
Thursday of Miss Jennie Yeatman and
OF Mrs. Lucius Burch and little John
Burch, who are visiting her.
The three were driving along at a
trot, when the horse stuck one foot
through hole in the bridge and fell,
rolling over on his side. The occu-
pants of the vehicle were all thrown
out and struck the ground rather vio-
lently, all receiving bruises and a Sc
we're shaking up.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20

Court:
CIVIL DOCKET.
Monday, Nov. 18th.
Derryberry VS.. ms. Co.
S. E. Calender VS.. Columbia Water
& Light Co.
Bucknau VS.. Columbia Water &
Light Co.
F. R. Sheegog VS.. Columbia Water
& Light Co.
Tuesday, Nov. 18th.
White VS.. City of Columbia ct. al.
Body vs.. L. & n R. R. Co.
Wednesday, Nov. 18th.
Hanaway VS.. Randals.
]. D. Frierson VS.. Sandy Harris,
A. L. Blocker VS.. Mrs. R. A. Oglivie.
Horace Rainey VS.. C. F. Perry.
Thursday, Nov. 18th.
S. E. Calender & Co. VS.. Fergus.
j. w. Huckaby VS.. r. H. Russell.
James Dodson VS.. L. & N. R. R. Co.
Henry Hamlet VS.. Mfg. Co.
Friday, Nov. 18th.
E. w. Dixon VS.. L. & N. r. r. Co.
A. L. Blocker VS.. James Galloway.
Vaughan VS. Miss Mary Shirley.
Blair & Brown VS.. Joe Parks.
Saturday, Nov. II.
Morris Sherman Mfg Co. VS.. Central
Phosphate Co.
E. G. Cant vs.. Henry Benner.
Monday, Nov. 18th.
w. j. Jacobs VS.. R. E. Mccormick.
Harris ct. Tx VS.. n, c. & st. L. Ry.
Co.
City VS.. Matthews Gordon
Tuesday, Nov. goth.
DERRICK Ayr & Mfg. Co. VS. City
Grain and Feed Co.
Mayor and Aldermen VS.. DR.. E. G.
Grant.
Chas. Johnson VS.. L. & n. R. R. Co.
w. o. Black VS. Jas. S. Adams.
Wednesday, Nov. 21st.
w. F. Norman vs. ]. H. Berry.
T. r. Roberts VS.. L. & n. R. R. Co.
Geo. C. McFall VS. L. & n. R. R. Co.
Thursday. Nov. 22nd.
D. D. Miller, VS.. L. & N. R. r. Co.
Alvin Daniels vs. /. & N. R. r. Co.
Voss VS.. L. & n R. r. Co.
CRIMINAL COURT.
Monday, Nov. 26th.
State VS.. Jno. Nelson.
State VS.. Gordon Rosser.
Tuesday, Nov. 27th.
State VS.. Newt Hood
State VS.. Newt Hood
State VS.. Janey Walden.
State VS. Luke Cathey.
Wednesday. Nov. 18th.
State. VS.. Lige Phillips
State VS.. Melvine Keyloe.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20
TREES AND PLANTS.

Fruit trees of all kinds. strawberry
and raspb 'ry plans, asparagus roots
etc. R. A. WILKES.
7.tf Culleoka, Tenn.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20


Jurors 1865
Jail 1O5226
Work House 11s846
Total ........ ............... .......... s1O8482
No.
1O4o2-w fowler, Revenue Commissioner 800
lO4OSJ
l1o4OS-J Wright Assessing Taxes ..............
1O41sJOnas Erwin Serving Notice Work Grading Roads LOO
1O42o-John Brown Revenue Commissioner 500
1O42Sw. $500
1900
10426-Dobbins Bucket Buster Les
1O427-Dae House 1892
1O42SCity Transfer Co. Drayage Court House APP
L..
1O489-Foer Webb Stationary 1880
1886
1O441McQuddy 27S5
1O442Coumbia d5
1O443-Cenral Hospital April Account 5175
$3.50
10
I1O446F E. rs
I1O44SE Letsinger, 5000
1O45O-J L VOORHEES, Salary 500
1O452G wniamsport 10
1O458-W E. Jones Jr Salary 800
1O454-Tuner Johnson Powder Court House 80
1880
1O456Ree Watkins Repairing Roof $3.50
1o457-J .................
i1o45s-d H Fitzgerald Excess Tax County School $50
lo4s2-w o Gordon salary $500
1o4s8-chicago Tribune Advertising Court House 1910
I1O464-W E Ayre Pens Register so
!1o467A
I10473W A Cattle
1O47SW Green Damage Public Road 221S9
I1o479-W B. Turner Revenue Commissioner 900
i1o4S2J
1o4SSJno Shack, Bringing Coal so
1O495Tom Frieron Cleaning Cisten 700
1O5O4W Gordon, Salary $500
I1O5O7-Plummer Webster Salary 200
l10OSJ VOORHEES, Salary
lo5Os-cfzen Telephone House 1915
McQuiddy Printing Stationary
Stationary Observation-Disclosures.
I1oS-Lura Lendrum stenographer Work 1900
105Plumm Webster Salary
H.
1os-Rub Evans Work Court House ................ 500
I1O5W Salary $500
H.
1o525-Plummer webster Salary Observation-Disclosures. 200
.........
1o581-Adams Martin, Account rs
1O582Cumberland Telephone 685
1O588F Repairing File 15O
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000
1o5a7-Dobbins
1o545-J L. VOORHEES, Salary 1850
1O54S-Pummer Webster Salary 1000
O54sw 5000
Salary
O57S-W Gordon Salary $500
............ J
1oolsss Balance ss Stone app Court 10000 1900
........... 1926
$500
O5SS-A Repairing Adding ...........
1920 .
=
H
NJ
L. VOORHEES,
1O62S-Nfaury ...................
O626Pummer Webster Salary 500
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20

Too Many Bill Collectors Now.
The Sultan has his doubts about the
raising of the American Legation to
the rank of an Embassy being a mark
of hip.-Philadelphia North
American.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20
FOR SALE

Nice home, IA acres, room house
and other improvements, 2h miles
from Court House on Santa Fe pike
For particulars address ]. E. PATTER.
SON, r. F.. D. No. 3. jul6-4tw
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20
CIRCUIT COURT
DOCKET

The following docket has been set
for the November term of the Circuit
Court:
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20

The toll expenditures the Quarter $4251
dus for the first Quarter the
paid of
General County Fund without
higher
at the present taxation
have to present taxes The
Road Commissioners
Commissioners for the balance fund
rejoice
praon
county
the
sewerage 1t is an admirable Respectfully
w. o. CountyJu
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20

Il have been somewhat costive, but
Doan's Regulets gave just the results
desired They act mildly and regu-
late the bowels perfectly. "-George B.
Krause, 300 Walnut Ave, Altoona, Pa.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20

COLUMBIA. TENNESSEE.

high grade school for college
United States for the United
OF
instruction military
ed by lighted with Acetlene
ball ball.
ming pool Enrolment last
paciy the dormoies
Other
reasonable A
Fall S, Fore
j. C. HARDY, M A., J. E. EDeERToN, M. A., Principals.
-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20
Il Miqht Get the Wig.

Now Ohio is after John D. Rookie
feller's scalp But it is doubtful if
even the law can get hold enough to
win the trophy.-Baltimore American.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20
Ashton Mills

VIII pay the highest price for wheat
and furnish sacks in which to deliver.
We are prepared to store your
wheat upon advantageous terms until
You are ready to SELL
. We also offer inducements this year
to farmers in exchange Of Flour for
their wheat and solicit your patron
age. Very respectfully
jun.27-d6t&w.tf ]. B. ASHTON.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20

worst cases IN twenty days. Soc and sI.OO
at all leading drug stores. or by mail.
Prepared by NATIONAL TOILET co.. Paris, Tsun
Sold in Columbia by w. p. Woodbridge
and Other Leading Druggists.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-26
"WOUNDlNG" A FIRE,

From the London Outlook
A curious modern attempt to rationalizs
one of the Oldest of superstitions is to be
found in I<iplings Life Handicap" There
Mulvaney checks the author from stirring
the fire with Ortheris' bayonet, on the
ground that fire takes the heart out of
the steel. The real reason is much more
mysterious. 1t was one of the maxims of
Pythagoras mot to stir the fire with A
tribes of North America and of North
east Asia hold it sin TO take up a burn
ing ember for pipe-light with the point
of a knife. The explanation is undoubted-
ly given by Johannes de Plano Carpini
when he tells us that one of the Tartar
superstitions concerns sticking knife
into the fire, or in any way touching the
fire with a knife, or even taking meat
out of the kettle with a knife, or cutting
near the fire with an axe; for they be-
lieve that so the head of the fire would
be cut off,
This is evidently connected with the an
cient idea that fire is a living creature, a
sacred animal, which must not he
wounded by its human owners, in case il
should be annoyed and deprive them of
its valuable services. Is this in any de-
gree more irrational than the belief still
existent among housekeepers that feeble
fire can be made to burn up by laying the
poker across it, or that the sunbeams fall
ing on a fire tend to put it ont2
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-26
Senatorial CHANCES.

The democrats will lose on March
four seats in the Senate, namely, Pat
terson of Colorado, who is to be super
seeded by Simon Guggenheim of the
shelter trust, because he financed the
republican state campaign; Gearin OF
Oregon, holding seat by appointment,
will be succeeded by republican
whom the legislature will select and
Dubois of Idaho and Clark of Mon
tana could not elect democratic legis-
latures. The two new senators from
Oklahoma will, however, be democrats,
SO that the net loss will be two seats.
But the republicans will have two
thirds of the upper house-something
they have not had since 1873.
The republicans have, however, in
ternal troubles of their own. In New
Jersey they are in peck of trou-
BILE. Senator Dryden, multi-mil-
lionaire, put up the money to pay the
election expenses of his party in the
state. and the machine expected to
be able to re-elect him. This is what
it cannot do as indications now are.
A republican will be elected senator,
but it will not be Dryden. There is
also revolt in Rhode Island against
the Brayton-Aldrich machine, and
| Senator Wetmore will not be re-elect-
ed. In Michigan Ayers successor has
not been selected. The fight is a not
one. and two or three millionaires
are in the race. The machine in New
Hampshire is also under cloud, and
Winston Churchill may be elected SEN
ator.
Were it not for the Guggenheim Sc
lection in Colorado the changes would
do no little to efface the plutocratic
feature of the Senate, but where Gug-
genheim takes a seat it is plain that
the machine and plutocracy are still
in the saddle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-26
LANDMARKS PASSING.

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The historic home of General Beaure-
gard Is being torn down.
The landmarks in New Orleans and VI
cinity are gradually being swept away
before the onrushing tide of modern COM
mercialism. One by one these long-cher-
ished reminders of the past are giving
place to things of the present, evidence
that the Crescent City is now making
rapid strides toward the attainment OF
that commercial -eminence which Is
it's birthright. On the one hand. senti-
ment rebels against the removal of these
connecting links with a glorious past or
the other hand public spirit extends a
welcome TO connecting links with an even
more glorious future.
The latest instance in point is the demo
lition of the famous old Beauregard man.
sion to make room for the new Chalmctte
slip now under construction. Some montns
ago the work had progressed so far as
to necessitate the taking down of a 9or-
ton of the ancient structure. and 1t was
at that time thought and hoped that the
remainder could be preserved. The New
Orleans Terminal company, which is part
of the Frisco system, found this, now
ever, to be impossible, the construction
of the outside wall of the slip and two
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-26
Monop0Iy in COMO.

The Belgians may continue to CON
arol the Congo Free State nominally,
but actually it is hereafter to be con-
alucted by lot of Standard Oil Ameri-
cans, and no Standard Oil American
permits competition. John ID. Rocke-
Teller is in the new Congolese combine,
and so is .Aldrich, son of the Rhode
island senator, and so is Thomas f.
bryan, and the Guggenheims, and
HARRY Payne Whitney. They have
home together in Congo, so to speak,
no exploit its rubber output, its mines
and its railroads. This simply means
hhat they will soon own the whole
hhing, or rather that they will exploit
hhe entire territory, vast it is, turn
ding every foot of it and every naked
native in it to use and profit.
This lot of Americans have long de-
Eired country they could exploit I'M
lhampered by law or anything else, and
hhey have found 1t at last. The Con-
lgolese may have Jared poorly in King
n4eopold's hands, but their condition
Twill be far worse when the American
lconcessions go into full operation.
liking Leopold is to be succeeded by n
fiWall street brigade, and what that
brigade will do to the poor Congolese
Twill yet shock the humane world, for
lRockefeller and the Aldriches and the
,Whitneys believe in making men in
masses yield all that humanity will
bear. Clear the way then in the Congo
Free State for new and suburbinated
STANDARD Oil concern with no Ida Tar
bell to modest or make afraid
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-26
A Paucity of Clocks.

81 think Birmingham is rather short on
public clocks" said man last night
"There are only two big clocks in the
city, and both of them are a little out
of the business center. The court house
clock and the clock in the government
building tower are the ones l have in
mind. The tall building erected in recent
years have virtually INSTRUCTED the court
house clock from the public eye. True,
you can hear it strike all over town, but
the striking is worth nothing between
hours The new telephone building has
cut off the view of the government clock
from up Second avenue. At night Is the
time you most miss the public clocks I
think it would be great scheme for big
clock to be placed on one of the sky
scrapers The dial lighted by electricity
would be visible from all points, and
would prove wonderfully convenient OF
course. the man with watch don't care
much about the public clocks, but there
are whole lot of people who don't carry
timepieces.
This paucty of clocks possibly i'm
proves the watch dealers business, but
I'm inclined to think big clock on top
of the Brown-Marx building would be ap-
preciated by everybody, and would, pos
sbly. at times be the means of improving
the domestic affairs at the house of the
man who Just missed the last car
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-26
DOGS OF coNsTANTINoPLE.
Turks Treat Them Kindly, Refusing to
Kill Even the Manned.

The dogs are great fea ture OF Con-
in the sunshine and are most consider
towns They lie about in amiable heaps
stantinople, and, indeed, of all Turkish
ately treated by the Turks, though occa-
sonally they suffer at the hands of
Greeks or Armenians. One constantly sees
slumbering group, over which the pass
ersby carefully step, monopolizing the
very center of busy crowded street
Each road has it's own pack, which pro-
tests vehemently against any foreign
trespasser
Yet dog may pass where he pleases
says a writer In Blackwoods Magazine
by making. in the Turkish phrase, 'tes-
slim'-that is, resignation" In street
not his own he is obliged, every few
yards, to lie on his back and wave his
paws propitiatingly, while an inhospitable
chorus banks around him. The progress
is slow and undignified but in the end
sure.
Some of the dogs are handsome, and
nearly all have most courtly manners, but
the great majority are either crippled by
carriages or mange-stricken.
When puppies appear upon the scene
the nearest Turk provides a basket and
milk and sees generally to their welfare,
and woe betide the foreigner who tries to
kill hound
Once 1 was passing down a street at
dusk, but stopped to make the acquaint-
ance of a puppy like a ball of worsted
] had established a very satisfactory basis
for future friendship, and was going on
my way when heard the rattle of wheels
and yelping. Going back, / found the
poor little beast had been run over and
had two legs broken. AS a big Turkish
porter was passing, [ offered him a franc
to put the puppy out of its pain. a work
I did not relish. He was ready to take it
roughly from my hands, but not to kill it.
THAT'S different" he said; ''to take life
is wicked
There are many repellant sights in Con-
stantnople, and it is hard to conceive
picture which more realistically repre-
sents a scene from the Inferno than an
ordinary business transaction that occurs
nightly. Dogs are the scavengers of Con-
stantinople, and every night the refuse of
hotels and houses is thrown out into the
street
A class of man exists which lives by
rag-pieking. and diligently investigates the
contents OF these heaps, while the dogs
snarl and bay around him savagely. re-
senting his intrusion into their perquisites.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-26
FISHING AND PROFANITY

From Grover Clevelands New Book
Fishing and Shooting Sketches"
T would certainly seem that the Ell
nifty of those who take pleasure in
reviling fishermen and their ways
should be satisfied. They have not been
content, however, in the demonstration
of their evil-mindedness without adding
to their indictment against the brother =
hood the charge of profanity. OF course
they have not the hardwood to allege that
our profanity is of that habitual and low
sort which characterizes the coarse and
ill-bred, who offend all decent people by
constantly interlarding their speech with
fearful and irrelevant oaths. They, new
ertheless, find sufficient excuse for their
accusation in the sudden Calculations.
outwardly resembling profanity, which
are occasionally wrung from fishermen
in trying crises and in moments of soul
straining unkindness of fate.
Now, this question of profanity is large
ly one of intention and deliberation The
man, who, intending what he says, cooliy
INDUCES in imprecation, is guilty of an
offense that admits of no excuse or ex-
tenuation but a fisherman can hardly
be called profane who, when overtaken
without warning by disaster, and abrupt
~ hurled from the exhiliarating heights
of delightful anticipation to the depths
OF dire disappointment, impulsvely gives
vent to his pent-up emotion by the use
of word which, though found in the