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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-08

newspaper at Paducah.
Mr.. Foster is in i'll health from in
juries sustained in fall last Decem-
Der. but has been improving for some
time, and expects to soon be about
again with his comrades at the home
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-08
PADUCAH GOVERNMENT EN-
PLOYES LOSE OUT.

Washington, ID. c., Feb. g.
. Because of "a threatened defic-
iency i'm the fund for maintain
ing Federal buildings, the treas
ury department today dismissed
eighty employees throughout the
country.
Among those dropped are Iii
ram Davis, elevator conductor,
and Robert w. w. Williams, "a
laborei, at the Paducah build
ing.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-08
ALDERMEN MEET.
The Light Committee May BE Ready
to Make "a Report.

The light committee will probably
have a report on the street lighting
proposition to make the board of al
dermen tonight. The committee
met again this afternoon to go over
some additional data 1t has in hand.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-08
Stove Plant Burns.

Portsmouth, o., Feb. S.--The
plant of the Portsmouth Stove COM
pany. employing $50 men, was de-
stroyed by fire this morning, loss
$4,000.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-08
Death at Mayfield.

Mayfeld, KY, Feb. S.-iMrs. Tom
Dockery is dead here. She is SUR
vived by husband and several chill
dren-
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-08

When a man has pair of hand
cuffs on his wrists he knows what it
means to be within the clutches of
the law.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-08
Death at Golcontia.

Mr.. Lon Mccoy. of Golconda, died
Tuesday of acute indigestion, and
was buried today.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-08
THE WEATHER.

The Indications aie for part
ly cloudy tonight with slightly
warmer this afternoon. Friday
colder.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-26
TO INCREASE {. h: !.
|I'|iT7IJA| T'0s200,00]0,0!0].0.
But Of $es,ooo,ooo in New Stocks
Only $16,5oo,ooo Of Preferred
Will Be Issued. Us
Especial to Tho Times. DIspatch.)

NV AIa
NEW YORK, August &25.--In the call
for q special meeting at Toledo, Ohio, on
October 22d, sent out by the Wabash Rail-
road Company, stockholders and deben-
,ture mortgage bondholders are asked to
give their approval not only to a new
s2Oo,oooJOoo retunding mortgage bond issue.
but also to authorize an increase OF the
roads stock capitalization to $500 0O. 900,
This step Ia taken In order to comply with
the laws Of the State OF Missouri, which
prohibits the bonded indebtedness Of d
railroad to exceed the par value of Its.
stock capital, sSs
1t Is not the Intention OF the Wabash.
management however, to issue 2any5newl
stock at present other than Sl6,b 10000 OF,
preferred andE!a similar amount In cons
mon shares In carrying out the plan
for the e~xchangafof the debenture bonds.
The road has at present an authorized
capital OF slo2.ooo,ooo, of which Ss2, ooo,o 900 is
has all been issued. but only sss,00O,0oo OF
the s7s.ooo,ooQ IN common st9ck is out
standing, In order tosSproYide sthesflfty5
per cent, In preferred stock to he given,
To- the debsnture bondholdersN VI new
preferred shares amounting to- $40. 900, 1000
Will bo issued, Sufficient common stock
is still on hand to comply Withs1hegterms,
az exchange, $40.000,000 worth being held
IN the roads reasupy.
Shareholders WILL nevertheless be ask
"A fto Increase the EapthorixedS common
Stock to ss1,5O0,0 900, a that amount with
lthel new sl6,5oO,0O In preferred shares, will
bring the entire apitallzartlo pRR n f2qpa.ss
0O0,0W,S ss4tssM t4Ess# vi #4sfe!&sA
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-26

@lNtSH%4S
running races and steeplechases will be-
TO- 20, and 10 per cent. Ea 49,.
Entries In ali harness races close tues
day, October 2, 1905, at IL O'Clock ~ ~.
Records made day. no bar.
81 Entries In running races close October
~ 1906, atE il Pm s.s,Isa
All additional entries will be rejected.
Horses held for all races In which they
stalis free 70 horses entered IN harness,
running races and steeplcchases..
The onlcers and directors Of the fyir-
ll,inia State Fair the following we'll
President-Hon Henry Stuart.
Observation-Disclosures Stewart Bryan
B@ secretnry-hf..& AL Chambers. &53S4N
STreasnrer-O.a III, Sands
anager-Henry5 Smith 1Lakeland..8sN n,
81: Assistant anager-C. ". Smith.
Directors-H. C.@stuartsI ]. I, Anderson.
NJ ~ patterson. L.!%O.G Miller. Cor
,leys. S. D.#Crenshawa E.sB Sydnor. C.SE:
Doyle, William D. Duke. John Stewart
Rryan e. Cutshaw. E.&G Iyeigh.sA.
r.. Williams. Joseph {Wallerstein, John
Murphy, M. A. Chambers. James Bell
3U,Nnh aHFAars reGEEsEE H.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-26
new YORK MAYBE !.
!. WORLD GEM MART.
De Beers Company, Controlling
Diamond Output, Will Move
Headquarters,
Headquarters,

Especial to The Times D1spatcn:S I. a.
NEW YORK, 30 eseap e7 "a.
Geo a year the De Beers Consolldhteu
Mines Company, Limited, which controls
tho diamond market, Is about to move lts
fheudounrters from London to- city out-
side Of England, according 70 messages
received by the Importers In this CITY VINO
INV their rough stones from the Ens-i
lish syndicate. Dealers say thut tseWs
York may be selected as inc
tiers for the distribution ~ ct least s,e
larger and finer qualities 81 stGnss, I, w
INIT paris Is more likely to- be chosen as
the center ,s - 80
AZ Nearly all of the wholesale4dealera
ana even some OF tho retail dealers goAto
TN,lrnneI al intervals to buy diamonds, tho
change to be made In headquarters " q
movement OF much Importance 70 the Jew
airy trade. Henry FerA,,3 OF ttera y liaulr
sons No. G5 Nassau street, who buys5 from
the syndicate, snid yesterday thnt New
voluntion8 Of tho total yield OF diamonds.
A1Jdiscussion OF the House OF, Lords m
england was announced M few days ago
holding that the Do Beers company must
nav the Income tax In that country al
wall as N Cape. Colony and this sWas the
last straw, as aIrGsult of which represenr
tatlves OF the company said they would
move rather than submit to- the double
taxation. XII
Reeent increases In the price OF dla-
,monds Is ascrihed by those In the trade
to the expectation OF the De Beers cons
'pany that N Mould soon have TO- pay tho
English income tax for the last three
years, amounting to- mora than se,,0 300,
The profits Of ..theRps beers company In
the last fiscal year, according to- the an1
}}nual report Of the shareholders q mopnted
to nearly Sp,00o.p00, realized on an output
OF diamonds bringing gross receipts %
nearly. Ssb.vOQ,W
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-26
a BED OF TALc.
Grayson County to Have q Mod
ern Courthouse.
Especial 10 The Times. D,lspatch.)

Especial TO The Times Dlspatch.) ~
GA1.AX. VA. August q .--lNlIcssrs 8Bates
and Woodstock, sof8 Boston, REPRESENTING
Northern CAPITALISTS have purchased for
spot cash, q handsome figure. the
farms OF Perkins Hodges and CRANKY
Davis, six miles from town. Upon this
property have been located deposits Of;
tale ore OF a very fine quality. The ex-
.cavations that have been made indicate
that the beds are enormous. It Is gun-S
5derstood to be the purpose OF those
backing the enterprise to build "a rail
road from Gahx to the minesgand begin
operations at once. Other property In
the neighborhood has been optloned.
Grayson county Is shortly to have q
new courthouse modern and handsomely.
equipped In every particular. y The plans
and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES by Frank J:
sMilburn and Company. of Washington;
have been adopted, and the contract
awarded to Pc. Sharke. of Marion. The
building IS to cost s2o,475.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-26
5PlULAski,s IRON coMdPANY,s FURNACE.
BERTHA ZINC Works.

9H8EeBNA1k sEIIahr6SNF31
the ssS..s;B 3 Four will rescind It's action.
at the meeting Friday Western roads
nre vitality Interested n8the Gquestlon, and
If the '.1Big Four stands abyalts position
to- abolish the %''plus 8ba sis .',.@si q loss in
fearnings rs sure to- result VIII Under the
old plus basis the Western roadssSdidi
not receiYe more: for hauling freight
from Illinois territory To Chicago than
sthesy5searned, Wit h the plus bnsis''Eabo1
ished, the iearnings would not she% com
s1nensurate with the services performed
News has: been received that ] ,.%&BBJ.
Hardwlck, OF Phoenix and LosaasAngeles,S
has secured a concession tromathetM exl-
can government for the 5constrnctionssot
railroad 800 niles long In Sonoras,&SHsT The
sinitialNpoint OF the line vii l3be&Carbo,Ya
INSTRUMENTATION the Sonora road thence
Win Copet and BellensMin es to- lUres;.4aand
continuing on through 5thes8YaquiHRiiver
Valley. .@8ss II
The Western sPaclf ic us perfecting plans
III enter California; and when the road
ISL completed IT will be one gof the great
est railroad engineering feata In modern
times. Thes5englneers In charge have In
sstructlonss %tto4 keep one object y View
the ssttruaaigtshtest8llne with the least grade
accomplishSthi fortY-flYe tunnels Will
be bored Ii eastern nliffornnla between
5OroxtlleaS q d d BecklWlltthSSSH F. ASS Instead .o ols
,gqoinggsJaurppn,, nd gsmTountain s the Pa
5ciflctssf 4 sthrolgh them..s Stf5 "
Thesblongest8of the tunnels is tina az
tho head Of Spring Garden ,8tWyellYeegSmile
east 43oof& quincy This isg GutSunders@sthe
rridgcadlvyiding Observation-Disclosures forks,
ofsthe$ River sItswill8be nore$th han
1000 feettin n length when completed !. NJ lM.
next alongestS8tun tunnel ON The loa VII De
the Il BeckW1th Pass. ThtsSWill
he over 1900 feet IN length,8a and u iss be.
ing bored at both ends. The third tunnel
will probably be the most q fficulft i en-.
cheering fent of 5alll,I$ns Az vii pc cnt
thlroulgh5solld rock fredericksburg Sota Z, 2oo
feet. This will be north Of Quincy On
Spanish Creek 5 4 nj sS $95@S il
While ing thisscountr y,athesconstructlon
az narrow--guagearailW ayslhasap ractica
E2LWF EM - ~ 80 G ~~L N-AA MNEL
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-26
7Tlcontlnued On Third Page:1

While In this scountry,assth
narrow-g'uaalg,ea raj ways ha ~sspractically
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-26

itcoptlnAad 9n Third Passsl
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-26

Aameeting OF the executive traffic OIL
Gals of tho Chicago railroads has been
called to- take further action upon the
aBig Tour's'' reduction In grain rates
from Illinois points to the Atlantic seas
board, which has already been declared
Ill-adyised and needless at q conferences
OF tie traffic men, II II eApecteastAat
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
cARNEGIA AND THE SCOTS.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
The habit of looking a gift horse in
the mouth has been -eprobated from times
antedating the building of the pyramids,
and old Cheops and the Sphinx, but your
genuine Scot cares not for maXims or
rules; he takes a delight in litgiousness
aud preserves his inalienable right to
rail and to object. Carnegie and his edu-
eational fund for Scotland's behoof are
now under examination and Sir William
Sinclair Japp, a fine old crusty Scot,
"voices the severe complaints of the evil
effects of Andrew Carnegies gift of slO-
100000 to the Scottish universities"
Tie caller air has been more plentiful
than good sller in Scotland during most
of it's history, and the sudden emptying
of a cornucopia upon the heather has
worked unforeseen results The fund Is
distributed with a free and liberal hand
to students generally who may apply for
aid, and they have been making free TO
apply. Many students who did not posi-
lively need the doles have been getting
a pretty cantie of the fees, and have
then squandered it on John Barleycorn
and other Scottish delights, and, with true
Scottish caution, the eanny chiefs have
concealed from their parents and guard
ians the fact that they took the money.
The university professors have also
raised their fees for instruction in many
cases, and have become "less earnest in
performing their duties" The Scottish
student is closing his self-reliance' and
his capacity to struggle against difficult
ties. and the whole nature of university
training is undergoing a change for the
waur
Hoot mon, baud your hand. Whence
springs old Scota's grandeur? From hard
knocks in hard climate; from the grind
ing self-denial; from the lessons in perse-
verance and pertinacity; from the habit
of cultivating literature and supporting
life on a little oatmeal.
That at least Is the verdict of the OBJ
jectors; but Carnegie need not worry, and
will not be surprised to hear the COM
plant and to know that the applications
still come in for the money
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
UNcoNQUERED sALToN SEA.
Providence journal.

From the Providence Journal.
Disturbing news comes east to the eff
feet that the Salton Sea is again at its
old tricks and is rising in SO persistent
a fashion as to threaten to drown out
the hamlets and turn the farm lands into
hopeless swamps. Less than two months
ago the Colorado river, which Is respon-
sible for the trouble, was reported to be
effectually damned after swelling the
Salton Sea into a veritable ocean. Tho
engineers of the Southern Pacific, the
right of way of which through Southern
California and Arizona Is maintained only
by ceaseless conflict with the Salton Sea,
were said to have sthrottled the over
flowing river. 1t would continue to bear
Watching perhaps, but no further diff
flculty was expected. Now the mighty
stream has broken loose again.
Toying with the gigantic Colorado river
has already proved to be an expensive
business, and the end is evidently not
yet in sight. The Salton Sea- reduced to
sink" had left desolate thousands of
acres of land in the valley. Private cap
ta and government appropriations de-
voted TO diverting the Colorado river over
the waste land proved so successful that
ii is estimated, more than eighty thou
sand acres are now under cultivation in
the irrigated section aud there are ten
thousand people farming in the territory,
All went we'll until little more than
year ago, when the mighty river broke
through the harness and the private irri
CATION company and the shrunken REM
nant of the "sea" rose and spread out
for hundreds of square miles a million
or more dollars worth of dam construc-
ton went swirling down the river and
the people in the valley were driven from
their homes.
Just where the present break is does
not clearly appear in the reports, but
it is intimated that the Southern Pa
cfc will hoist it's tracks clear of the
flood which looks like a final surrender
after years of tremendous engineering
and millions of money have been ex-
pended in doing its share to keep the
river in the track that the irrigation
plans provided for it. 1t is estimated that
more than twenty-five million dollars of
present values are a t stake, dependent
upon the possibility of keeping the river
in check. 1t was evidently considerably
less of an engineering feat TO divert the
Colorado for irrigation purposes than it
has proven to be to make it stay in its
new bed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
BELIEF IN SANTA CLAUS

is one of the illusions first to pass. Let
pedagogic wiseacres call the myth a mis-
take of profound ignorance;" the child
lover puts a higher value upon it.; he
regards 1t as personification of the idea
OF love which is to make mankind hap
pier, make it a Christmas Day. The child
with the Santa Claus myth in his heart,
beholding the evergreen tree covered with
life and glory, and joining in the joyful
Christmas songs, feels and lives what the
adults understanding cannot grasp, save
in remembrance. Shall the adult be robbed
even of this one remnant of Renaissance
of how 1t feels to be perfectly happy?
Then leave to Christmas the halo of glory
and mystery; leave to the child the Santa
Claus.
Wise words are these for those who
would rob childhood of all pleasures in
which imagination has a place. Is the
girl likely to grow up worse mother
because she handles a doll? VIII the boy
make a worse cowboy If he bestrides
his fathers cane and calls 1t a horse?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
The Money Market.

Henry Clews in his Wall street letter of
Saturdays date says:
Events of the week abundantly proved
the correctness of the persistent intima-
lions in these advices that liquidation
was the only cure for the present abnor-
NAL condition of the money market. Sc
we're declines have taken place in several
of the higher priced shares; and the sit
uation was somewhat improved In con-
sequence On the lower level there was
buying by strong parties of the stocks
which had shown the heaviest breaks;
and for the first time IN months a few
bargain hunters made their appearance in
the street. their purchases aiding in
checking the rather sensational decline
oe Wednesday last. The curative process
which has been going on-though unwel-
come to many-is the only thorough and
effective one. Liquidation is the only
means of righting the money market
Neither more currency nor currency re-
form at this time would bring the relief
equal to that produced by liquidation.
The congestion in the stock market is
largely responsible for the congestion In
the money market. When an individual
has a severe fit of indigestion a strong
dose of physic Is administered and soon
effects a cure. The stock market has
needed that kind of treatment for some
time past. The truth is our supply OF
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
Not JOYFUL for All.

1.-The Christmas season does not bring
joy to everybody" said a man yesterday
Instead of a happy Christmas some
people make 1t a 'scrappy Christmas,
and generally find themselves behind the
bars on Christmas morning.
But leaving out the rough and rowdy
element, there are many other people to
whom the Christmas season is one of
work and worry beyond that of any other
season in the year. The letter carrier
who comes to your door and hands you
the little box or letter which brings so
much pleasure to you finds his work more
than doubled these days, and he must
carry around big loads of mail, some of
them heavy enough for a horse.
1.-The street car conductor doesn't find
Christmas a holiday season, neither does
the clerk in the store who has to work
harder and longer hours. The policeman
who has to deal with the men who eele-
brate Christmas with a bottle in one
hand and a pistol In the other does not
welcome the festival, neither do the cook
and walters in restaurants
"The only way we can help to make the
season pleasant for the people l have
mentioned is to assist them as well as we
can, or at least restrain from fault find
ing and complaint if things do not quite
reach our expectations"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
Three Hundred Years Auo.

On May IA, 1907, the first English
settlers who came to stay, and who did
stay to begin the work of peopling
and making a new country, were
landed at jamestown, and an EXPOSE
ton is to be held near jamestown
to commemorate the historic and all.
important event. That event outranks
any other event in our history because
it rendered all subsequent events in
this country possible.
Other states are preparing to partici-
pate in the unique exposition that is
to be opened next year on the waters
that flow by jamestown, but thus far
Alabama has not moved a hand 1t
will not be perhaps too late to act
when the Legislature meets next
month The exposition will be IN
Southern hands. 1t will be held on
Southern soil to commemorate a
Southern event. Can Alabama afford
TO stay away altogether?
Vulcan can be set up there, and
the state can get together a state ex-
hibit but in order to do that the legis-
laure should act promptly, for the ex.
position is to be opened in the last
week of April. An excellent collective
exhibit from this state could be gotten
together in sixty days if the Legislature
so decides. 1t would advertise A,a-
bama's resources at an attractive en-
position that promises to be very large.
ly attended The gain to the state
would far outrun the cost of such al
exhibit A collective exhibit and Vul-
can would suffice, and both can be 50,
cured in the time remaining.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
SOUTHERN RAILROADS.
Washington Herald.

From the Washington Herald.
"rhe railroads of the south have almost
invariably lived up to every law framed
for their regulation and control" said Mr..
Charles A. Wickersham, president of the
Atlanta and West Point railroad, and also
of the Western Alabama railroad, at the
New Willard.
I'm all the accusations of the muck
rakers directed at the common carriers,
naught has been charged which in the
least reflects on the square dealing or
honorable operation of the railway COM
panies south of the Potomac. Their man
agement has been clean and just, and on
high plane of business integrity. The
sentiment that prevails with the men con-
trolling southern lines of transportation
IS to live up to the new railway regula-
ton law in spirit of compliance and
obedience even If they do not regard
the law as wise or fair in all its pro-
visions. Sooner or later things will get
adjusted, and the roads and the public
will get into better relations than ever
before existed"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
BiTminuham's Future.

The year 1906 has been a record
breaker in the way of industrial de-
velopment in the Birmingham district,
but the year 1907 promises to witness
far greater strides in material pro-
gress. The Tennessee company alone
has now under contract work that will
cost about seven millions of dollars.
The plans for further expansion
practically agreed upon by the direc-
tors will call for an expenditure of
fully $20.00O,OOO more. 1t is said that
within the next five or six years the
Tennessee company will spend fully
$5OOO0,000 and within ten years some
thing like $1OO,O0O,000.
In view of these large items it is
easy TO imagine that Birmingham IN
twenty years will have a population of
100000.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
New issues of the Day..

President Roosevelt has presented
us with the issue which he calls
swollen fortunes, and he presents
remedies in an income tax and an
inheritance tax. Andrew Carnegie, Nj
L. ingalls, and various other members
of the millionaire brigade have in
dorsed the proposed inheritance tax
and it will undoubtedly become a
popular issue. An income tax will also
have ample support
Alongside these issues Mr. Root pui
out another called gradual centrali2a
ton" He assails the rights of the
states, having no doubt in any mind
that the administration intends 10
promote the swing away from the
states to the central government HeTe
Is an Issue that goes TO the very basis
of the reput lie, and the democratic
panty will not be slow in combating
it.
The swollen-fortune issue may liz
volve a change in the tariff, but OK
cept by indirection no republican,
whether he be of the Aldrich group or
Of The newer and improved Roosevelt
following, has q word to say about