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The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
BILL FOR ONE NEW STATE
The senate Strikes Out All the Pro-
visions Relating to Arizona
and New Mexico.

Washington, d. Con Friday
5:35 p. m. the senate passed a bill for
the admission of a new state to be
called Oklahoma ard to be composed
of the territory of Oklahoma and In
dian territory. 1t was the house joint
statehood bill with all the provisions
relating to Arizona and New Mexico
stricken out. The motion to striks out
vas made by Mr.. Burrows, and it was
carried by the close vote of 81 to 35,
after having been lost by the still
closer vote of IS to sc.
The vote on statehood came is the
climax of a day devoted exclusively to
that bill. Most of the time was given
to discussion, but the voting on the bill
and amendments consumed an hour
and a half. The speech making excited
comparatively little interest, but there
was pronounced excitement throughout
the voting period, and it eliminated
when the success of the motion to
eliminate Arizona and New Mexico
was announced after the second vote
on that proposition.
The test vote, upon which the op-
ponents of joint statehood showed their
greatest strength, was on the For
aker amendment, which provided
that Arizona and New Mexico
should have an opportunity to vote
separately on the proposition of joint
statehood. This was carried by a vote
of AZ to 30.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
THE sTEUNENBERC MURDER
Meyer, Haywood, PettibOne and Jack
Simpkins Formally Indicted
at Caldwell, Idaho.

Boise, Idaho.-Grand jury indictments
were formally returned, Friday, at
Caldwell, against the alleged murderers
of eX-Gov. Frank Steunenberg.
Meyer, Haywood, Pettibone and Jack
Simpkins are indicted jointly, being
charged with having murdered Frank
Steunenberg. There is in the indict-
ment no mention of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners nor any charge of
conspiracy. So far as the indictment
shows, each is accused of having per-
sonally participated in the crime
charged.
The indictment contains three counts,
all of a similar nature. The gist of the
charges IS that the accused men placed
a deadly box or bomb, filled with giant
powder, caps, sulphuric acid and other
explosives at the gate IN front Of Frank
S~teunenberg's residence with the inten-
tion of killing him. One count charges
the actual numbering of S~teunenberg by
causing the bomb to explode as Steun-
enberg was entering his yard.
The names of 20 witnesses, including
Harry Orchard, who has confessed to
his part in the crime, are Endorsed on
the indictment.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
WHITE SLAVERY IN CHICAGO
One of Them, Who Tried to Hang
Herself, Declares There Are Three
Thousand In the City.

Chicago.-According to the story of
Alice Wilson, aged "a, who tried to
hang herself in a cell at the Harrison
Street station, Thursday, there are
more than three thousand white slaves
in Chicago, and almost every saloon,
where women congregate, is a slave
den.
The woman, who was arrested on i
charge of disorderly conduct, claims
the saloon men pursue their slaves to
the death if the women try to break
away and lead better lives.
Improvising a rope out of strips torn
from a shirt waist, Miss Wilson, who
was once the wife of a merchant,
broken-hearted over her arrest on a
charge of disorderly conduct, tried to
commit suicide by hanging. Mrs. Har-
rison, the matron, discovered her and
cut her down.
There is no justice for u.s." declared
the young after she had been
revived. Il am a white slave"
Then she told the pitiful story of the
white slaves and declared there was an
organized band of slave traders in the
city, who pay from 500 to $500 for
each woman who can be induced to
loiter in the saloons.
The police are Investigating.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
BROKEN EGGS STILL EGGS.
Appraiser Holds That They Must Be
Levied Upon Though Sold to
Consumer by the Gallon.

New York.-General Appraiser
Waite, for the board of general ap-
praisers, has just handed down a de-
cision overruling the protest of l.. E.
Spencer against the assessment of
duty by the collector at Detroit at five
cents a dozen upon an importation OF
eggs from which the shells had been
removed. The decision says:
1T seems that in handling eggs for
expectation from Canada many OF
them are cracked or broken. From
these shells they are removed, and
are imported into the United States
and sold by the gallon, and are used
the same way as any eggs would be
used, by bakers and confectioners.
mo change whatever is made in
the condition of the eggs except that
the shell is removed. We think egg>
would remain eggs whether sold by
the bushel, gallon, or by the dozen.
Hence our conclusion is that the as
sessment by the collector was right"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
The Event, mt Atlanta, Co., Promises
To Bring u Great OutpOurinE
of Veterans Together.

Atlanta, Ga.-The detailed report
made Thursday by Col. Thompson H.
Jones, chairman of the committee hav-
ing in charge the arrangements for
the memorial to Gen. Joseph H. Wheel
err, which will be held in Atlanta
March q, indicates a widespread and
general interest in the event from all
parts of the country. Already the oc-
casion promises to be the most repre-
sentative if not the largest gathering
of veterans from north and south since
the civil war. The programme, as
planned, includes as speakers Cen.
Bennett H. Young, commander of the
Kentucky division United Confederate
Veterans, as orator of the day; Cor
poral' James Tanner, commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie; Gen. Stephen d. Lee, commander
in-chief of the United Confederate Vet
Grams; Gen. Julian S. Carr, of North
Carolina, coinmander-in-chief of the
Blue and the Gray; Maj. Charles S.
Miller, of Cleveland, commander-in-
chief Of the Spanish War Veterans;
Col. Thomas M. Owen, Montgomery,
Ala, commander-in-chief Sons of Con-
federate Veterans, and the governors
of several states.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16

Twenty words submitted to a spell
ing bee in Springfield, Mass, in 1916
were given to the high school class in
East Liverpool by Superintendent
Rayman, and it is reported not one in
the class correctly spelled every word
Only ten had average Of over 80 per
cent. The words submitted were &C
cidental, accessible, baptism, chirog.
raphy, characteristic, deceitful, de.
%scendant, eccentric, evangescent,
f%ierceness, feignedly, ghastliness,
gnawed, heiress, Mysteries, embecilityi
Uncomfortable. inconvenience, ineffici
emit and irresistible.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16

The agencies of religion and reform
in New Jersey are moving upon the
legislature of that state for the en-
actment Of stricter laws relative to
the sale of liquor and also for a bet
ter enforcement Of the excise laws
upon the statute books. In this work
all sects and denominations are
united. 1t is said that the bills favored
by the clergy will close the saloons
at IL o'clock every week night and
forbid reopening between that hour
Saturday night and 6 o'clock Monday
morning. Back rooms and sale Of
liquor to minors will be forbidden.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
SHOULD A HORSE
Be CLIPPED?
CLIPPING IN THE EARLY SPRING
RECOMMENDED BY LEADING
VETERINARIANS.
All Thinking Men Readily Recognize
Its Advantages.

"a horse Is a valuable asset, and
should receive the best care possible.
He should be well fed, comfortably
stabbed, carefully groomcd n clipped
in the early spring. If he receives
these attentions he will work well
and improve in value. A horse lives
under artificial conditions. In his
wild state he required none oil these
attentions, for he was able to look
out for himself. The domeSticated
animal, being worked under condi-
tions that are in themselves artificial.
must be kept in condition for such
work.
The clipping of a horse in the early
spring is now conceded by all the
leading veterinarians to be as essen
tial to a horses well being as shoeing
him or giving him a comfortable bed
to lie on. Farmers in England and
France have been clipping their
horses for many years, and American
farmers are not SLOW to realize its
advantages. A clipped horse dries
out rapidly after a hard days work,
and will rest comfortably and be re-
freshed for the work the following
day. An unclipped horse is liable to
catch the heaves, pneumonia and all
sorts of colds, rheumatism, etc. More
especially is this. so in the early
spring, when his hair is long and he
is soft" If worked hard he Will per-
spire freely and the moisture will be
held by his long hair, and the food
that should go to nourish him will be
used to replenish the heat that is be
ing constantly taken from his body
by the mass of cold wet hair. IL
clipped, the perspiration will evapor-
ate almost as soon as secreted, and
when put in the stable he rests com
fortably and his food does him good.
Some years ago a Buffalo street car
company tested the value of clipping
in the following manner: They own
ed 500 horses. and $50 of these were
clipped early in the spring and $50
were not clipped. A careful record
was kept of results, and it was found
that of the $50 unclipped horses 153
were afflicted with coughs and pneu-
monia, while of the $50 clipped not
one case of sickness was reported.
A man would not expect to enjoy
very good health if he did hard man
ual work clothed with heavy under
wear, a heavy suit and a fur o%vercoat,
and after perspiring freely, as he
naturally would, go to sleep without
removing same. 1t is just as ridicu-
lous to expect a horse to be in perfect
health if worked under the same con-
ditions.
If you would get the best returns
from your investment in your horse,
treat him right, and be sure and
clip him in the early spring A first
class housekeeping machine car be
bought at almost any hardware store
for less than $7.00.-Horse Review,
Dec. 9Th, 1905.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
DIED TRYING TO SAVE DOGS
william Christi After Saving His
Family, Tried to Save His
DOGS, ana Died with Them.

st. Louisa report received by long
distance telephone from Ironton, Mo-,
says that William Christ, after saving
his wife and children from a fire which
was destroying his place of business,
early Tuesday morning, returned to txe
building in an effort to save two dogs
and died with them. His charred body
was found in the ruins.
The fire, which was discovered at 1
a. M, for a time threatened to sweep
the business district of Ironton, which
is IS miles south of st. Louis.
Four buildings were destroyed, and
only by the hardest work on the part
of the volunteer iremen and a bucket
brigade were the flames kept from
spreading to the Commercial hotel, re-
Gently opened, and to the Register office
across the street.
1t was not until after a stubborn
fight, lasting three hours, that the fur
Their spread Of the flames was averted.
The loss was over $4,000 and 81, 900
insurance.
Christ went to Ironton from st. Louis
a year ago and went into the bakery
business. He was 81 years old.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
PART OF ROOF COLLAPSED
One Man Killed and Three Injured
by Collapse of ROundhOuse
Roof Mt Pueblo, Col.

Pueblo, Colby the sudden col
lapse of the concrete road over a sec
ticn of the huge new roundhouse of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad, in the
course of construction here, Tuesday
afternoon, Harry Robbie was instantly
killed and three others badly injured,
one, w. H. McFadden, probably fatal
ly. Oscar Keel and Bert Walter were
badly cut and bruised by falling debris.
Five or six other men were working
on the top of the roof over the first
section of the house when the crash
came, but managed to escape serious
injury by jumping to the ground.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16

1t is perhaps not an overestimate
of the value of the salt industry in
the state of Kansas to say that nc
other industry in the state has saved
the whole people of the state as much
money as the manufacture Of salt
When Kansas salt was first put on the
market Is years ago, eastern salt was
selling at an average price Of about
So per barrel. In IS years there has
been manufactured and consumed in
Kansas alone, approximately, 5000,
900 barrels of salt. 1t is very con
~servative to estimate that the price
has been reduced at least 81 pei
barrel.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
BEAT ROLL AT 8o3 BURIALS
Veteran of Civil War, Still Hale and
Hearty, Holds Record of Serv-
ice at the Grave.

Easton, Pa.-William Trumbore, OF
this city, has made a remarkable rec
ord as a drummer at the funerals OF
veterans of the civil war. Up TO rate
he has sounded the mufled roll at the
funerals of 1893 fellow comrades, be-
sides II Sons of Veterans.
When the civil war broke out Trum-
bore enlisted in the Fourth regiment,
New Jersey volunteers, serving under
Gen. Phil Kearney, and later under
Gen. A. J. Smith. In 1862 he went our
with the Tw~enty-eighth Pennsylvania
regiment in the emergency call for the
suppression of troubles in central
Pennsylvania.
Trumbore was honorably discharged
from the army with a sergeant's rank.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
GIVEN ANOTHER RESPITE
"LOrd' Barrington's Case Taken to
Missouri Supreme Court
EN- Banc.

St. Louisville action, Tuesday, OF
his attorneys in carrying his case be-
fore the state supreme court in banc
will act as an indefinite stay of eXecu-
ton for Lord" F. Seymour Barring
ton, who vas to be hanged at Clayton,
March Is, for the murder of James P.
Mccain.
Press dispatches from Jefferson City
say that the supreme court has granted
a motion that the case be reviewed by
all of the judges. Division No. l at
firmed the death sentence passed by
the lower court. No date has been set
for the hearing in balc.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16

shown his public spirit and his appre
citation Of art for the public's sake by
the gift of 100000 to the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art. Coming from one
Of Americas foremost collectors just
as the new management is installed
1t is a valuable expression Of conf:
dence, and suggests that Sir Purdon
Clarke is to be sustained in his laud
able ambition to make the art museum
the greatest of its kind in the world
although we shall never possess the
great art treasures Of Rome, Florence
Berlin, Paris and London.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
BACK TO FACE THE MUSIC
Andrew Hamilton Returns to New
York to 'Face the Music, Dis
cordant or otherwise"

New York.-Lobbyist Andrew Ham,
ilton returned to New York, Tuesday,
on the steamer Deutschland, on which
he was registered under the name Of
W. Milton. Mr.. Hamilton was at the
head of the legislative bureau of the
New York Life Insurance Co., and had
charge of the legislative work of sew
eral of the large companies.
Explaining the cause for his return
to the United States, MIR. Hamilton
said:
81 heard something about criminal
proceedings, and here l am"
You have come back to face the mu-
sick?" he was asked.
Yes, d%iscordant or otherwise"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
JUST INSIDE THE STATUTE
Tbree St. Louis Policemen Indicted
for Bribery Just Inside the
Limitation.

St. Louis, March 10.-Within "a
hours of the date when the statute of
limitations would have barred prosecu-
lions, Sergt. John ]. Connors and Pa
trolmen e. M. Cantilion and Theodore
Vollm9r, of central district, were in
dicted by the grand jury, Friday, on
charges of bribery. The indictments
were returned to Judge William Kin
sew in division No. II of the cir
cult court, Friday afternoon, in a par
tial report by the grand jury. The
first of the ~offenses alleged in the in
dictments occurred on March 10, 1903.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
Temperance Has Money Value.

A Swiss life insurance company has
taken action which indicates that tenn
perance" has money value. 1t has I'M
dertaken to insure members of a tenn
perance society composed of railway
employees for four per cent. less than en-
ployes who are not members of it. For
some time past a Swiss accident insur-
ance company has given total abstain
ers a reduction of ten per cent. in insur-
ance rates. So we'll satisfied is the COM
pany with results that after January 1,
1906, it will make the reduction to total
abstainers Is per cent.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE
VERDICT AGAINST VAUGHAN,
RYAN AND RAYMOND.
Com nitted Murder In an Attempt
to Escape To Hang.

Jefferson City, Mo.-The three con-
victs Vaughan. Ryan and Raymond
were declared guilty Of murder in the
first degree by a jury in the Cole coun-
ty circuit court, which returned its
verdict Thursday. Sentence of death
will be passed on all by Judge Martin.
All were convicted of the murder of
John Clay, penitentiary guard, killed in
the dash which they and Convict Blake
made from the prison in November
last.
The men were taken to the sherif's
office shortly before nine o'clock, and
promptly at that hour were taken into
the courtroom. In anticipation of the
verdict. they were guarded by seven
men. AS they entered the courtroom a
guard held the arm of each convict.
Other guards were before and behind
each man.
The prisoners were not shackled or
handcuffed. They were seated in a row,
with guards between and one at each
end Of the row.
The men stood up as the clerk read
the verdict. The expression of their
faces did not change as the clerk read
the words which meant death for them
all. When the verdict was cad they
sat down without saying a word or
looking to the right or the left.
There was a slight mistake in the
wording of the verdict, and the jury re-
tired to correct 1t. While this was be-
ing done the men remained in the
courtroom, sitting between the seven
guards.
1t is understood that the verdict was
reached on the first ballot.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
TAFT FOR CHIEF JUSTICE
ua VIII Succeed Justice Brown
First and Take the Higher
Position Later On.
Washington, March 1O.-The Post Sat.

Washington, March 1O.-The Post Sat
urday says:
President Roosevelt has decided to
appoint William H. Taft, of Ohio, now
secretary of war, to the next vacancy
in the United States supreme court.
That vacancy is to be created by the
voluntary retirement of Associate JUS
tice Henry B. Brown, who was appoint
ed in 1890 by President Harrison from
the state of Michigan. When Chief JUS
tice Fuller ~retires, provided it is during
the administration of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Mr.. Taft will be promoted to his exalt-
ed position"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
A VICTORY FOR LOUISIANA
Awarded the Peninsula of ST. Ber-
nard and Great Oyster Beds
Claimed by Mississippi.

Washington.-On Tuesday the SUI
preme court of the United States has
decided the case of Louisiana VS.. Mis-
sissippi, involving the water boundary
line between the two states, in favor
of Louisiana. The dispute involved
the peninsula of st. Bernard, and the
opinion holds that the peninsula and
adjacent islands are a part of the ter
ritory of Louisiana. In its pleading,
Louisiana claimed the disputed terri
tory covers 1,00O,0 900 acres of oyster
beds.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
HENRY v. BEMIS A SUICIDE
The Chicago Hotel
and Board of Trade Man
Takes His Own Life.

Chicago.-Henry V. Bemis, who was
one of the best known hotel men in the
country and a member of the Chicago
board of trade since 1859, killed himself,
Tuesday night, at his residence on In
diana avenue. Mr.. Bemis shot himself
behind the right ear, causing instant
death, after four unsuccessful attempts
to pierce his heart with a paper knife.
For more than two years he had been
in poor health and this, coupled with
recent heavy financial losses in a bust
ness venture, is assigned by his friends
as the cause of his suicide.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
ROBBED OF FIVE THOUSAND
A Missouri Railroad Contractor
Lured To a Lonely Spot in
Kansas and Robbed.

Kansas City, Woodward Nee
gan, a railroad contractor of Camden,
Mo-, reported to the police that three
men, upon the pretext Of selling him
mules, lured him to a secluded spot in
the woods near Rosedale, Kas, a sub
urb of this city, and robbed him of $5,-
600. Later Meegan captured one Of
the men, C. G. Miller, of Oklahoma City,
Okla, in whose pockets was $ $4,000. Mil
Ter claimed the money belonged to him.
Both Miller and Meegan were held,
Meegan as a witness.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16

The Indian Territory is a territory
with very few Indians. The five civ.
flied (and the term civilized is to be
taken literally here) tribes-Chero-
KEGS, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws
and Seminoles-comprise about $4,000
persons. Only a small portion are full
bloods, the rest being descendants OF
the Negro and mulatto slaves Of the
era before 1865; mixed breed Indians
of various shades of dilution up to
persons who can not be distinguished
from whites; and white men and WON
en- who have been adopted into the
tribes
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16

In New York, State Senator L,Hom-
medieu has introduced a bill to tax
every automobile in use in the state
one dollar for each horsepower which
1t uses, and which he declares will re-
suit in a revenue Of $500, 000, to be di-
verified toward the building of good
roads in the state.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
More Alleged Graft.

st. Louis.-The February grand jury
has voted indictments against four po-
licemen, a sergeant and three patrolmen,
of accepting money or presents, or both,
from lewd women for protecting them
or concealing crimes of robbery in
their dens.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16

There is a greater variety of plant
life in California than in any country
of the globe, excepting, of course, that
of which the Sunset State is a part
One farm near the town Of Fresno
county seat of Fresno county, and in
the center Of the great inland basin
has on it nearly every known variety
Of tree
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
Eorethuught.

Mistress-Bridget. why didn't you
finish winding the clock? You only
gave it a couple Of turns.
Maid-Yez must remember that I'll
be lawn yez to-morry, mum. and &c
not be afther dom amy of tn new
gyrul's wor-rk!-Tit-Bits.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16

Morocco has no railroads, and prac-
tically no roads. A mail service exists
between Fee and the leading towns on
the coast, such as Tangiers, Tetuan,
Rabat, Casabianca, Mogador and Safi.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16

The pope has just received from
California the largest toulmaline ever
found. 1t is a huge crystal, seven
inches long by about five inches in di
ameter and weighs about $4,000 kar
nts-nearly eight pounds. 1t is of
delicate pink color and is worth thou
sands of dollars. The gem was found
recently in the Mesa Grande mine in
San Diego county, California, where
the Indians were the first gem miners
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16

Arrangements have been made for
the erection Of a memorial to the late
MI. Cecil Rhodes on the Groote Schuur
estate, near Cape Town. The design
Of the memorial is to be intrusted to
Mr.. Herbert Baker. The massive
equestrian group by Watts, known as
physical Energy" will find a place
in the center. of the platform.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16

The exports Of o~leomargarin from
the United States for the IL months
of 1905 show an increase of 35.5 per
cent. over the exports for 1904. The
exports of butter during the same
period show an increase of only III
per cent.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16

According to Ainsworth R. Spofford,
the aged and scholarly assistant Ii.
brarian of congress, the people of Ger
many are the greatest writer's of books
in the world. He brought out this fact
to-day in a little discussion of books
and authors, in which he said that the
taste for history at the present time
amounts almost to a passion.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
Freight Runs Into Fast Mail.

st. Louis.-As peacefully the Iron
Mountain fast mail train, No. Z, south
bound, was standing in the station at
Ironton, Mo-, at 4:40 a. m. Friday, a
through freight train approaching rap
idly from behind struck it, partially
demolishing the baggage car on the
rear of the train. No n was hurt.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16

The news that the Belfast and
Northern Counties railway of Ireland
has offered free travelling for ten
years to proprietors or tenants OF new
houses along it's line between Belfast
and Tough Larne has been widely
commented upon in the press.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
A Merger Upheld.

st. Louis.-Judge John S. Philips, in
the United States court Of appeals de-
cided Thursday against Celia, Adler and
TILES in their effort to overthrow the
merger Of the United Railways and the
Transit Co.