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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-01
pioneer settler of tn" k"nnrhcr. Iii
block house stnni co feet east.

Miss Maxine Elliott has been getting
a true home welcome here in Maine
ma she ANA everybody else wish She
oft is Il Maine Girl and Was born in
toCkland. Shc is the daughter of the
Fate Thomas E"rnott. who resided in
RoCElan | FOR :: number of years, aftc.-
ward going t" California. 1t is on this
account that Maxine Elliott is fro
qucntly spoken of as a California girl
but she IS a Maine girl born and bred
Her sister, Gcrtrul" Elliott. now tho
wife Of ". Foi hes Robert son. the Eng
lish actor. is also achieving some meas
IRE Of fame before the f"otli3htS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-01

Tablets concentrating the exploits
war have been erected aboard various
vessels. but tn" Hornet. Il big ice barr"
which just took 1000 tons of ice from
the NCnns bee to New York. is the first
craft on record to show Il GravcStonc
sacred to the memory of Il beloved
Wife. In the stern, on the main deck
of the h@:l,c, Is Il tombstone erected t.
the mciucry "f Mrs. Henry Austin,
VIII" Of the cook Of the Hornet, which
is owned and commanded by Capt.
John Austin. brother Of the WidoWcr.
The crew consists Of the two Au5tins
and IL cabin boy. Quarricd on the
south shore of Long Island, the monu-
mcmt is 4 globe shaped by the splash
Of the waters and studded with various
She lis and stones. The top is cncircle1
by a shell wreath, in the center of
which is the name Of AuStins wife.
SET in cement placed within the bot
tom Of Il barrel. the tombstone rests
upon a base. Tie PEDESTAL has been
polished and gildcl until it CLEANS like
gold. when my little home was
broken up" said Henry Austin, II
turned 10 the sea. ~ to my Wifc's
tombstone being on deck, / suppose
some folks think it's mighty queer do
ings. but | loved my wife. and ! just
love to think about her. When we're
out at sea | love to work around the
stone, with just the blue sky above me
and the Gulls flying around. Some
how it brings her closer to me- She is
buried in Providence, and some time
the tombstone Will be placed over her
grave
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-01

October is here and now for the Music
Festivals and the Topsham fair.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-01

The open season is on and the fusi-
lade has begun in the northern woods.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-01

At last Il fitting monument has been
erected in Woolwiqhi to mark the last
resting place of the Preble family
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-01

Margaret Sidncys new book, 'Twn
Little Friends in Norway" which has
been unavoidaby delayed in publica
ton. will lie issued hy Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard CO.. Saturday. Sept. -. Til"
advance orders have been such as to
indicate that the 1.-TWO Little Friends
Series" Of which this will he the first
volume. will rival the authors famous
pepper Books in popularity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-01

one OF the kccnest characters in "'rhe
balance 81 Power" Arthur Goodrich's
new novel, Is Gilshannon, the brisk
cynical reporter. Here are samples of
his wisdom:
IF you get a bunch of people togcth-
or anywhere you can charge admission
to those that are outside. They like to
herd"
1T always has seemed to me that
ever since Columbus proved that tl,c
world was round, Heaven has been
fiat"
We've got down to the genius Of n
strike, an infinite capacity for break
ing pancs.'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-01

Ellis Parker Butler, who wrote "Pigs
is Pigs" for the American Magazine.
is announced as the only contributor of
Thanksgiving story to The American
Magazine for November. His publish
ems promise that his story contains an
a muSng surprise.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-01

katherine Pyle, the author-artist, ha:
written new book for young children
entitled "Nancy Rutledge and Hcl
Friends" with Little. Brown & Co
will bring out this fall with series OF
full-page pictures by Miss Pyle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-01

Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 60. has in
press 4 ncw edition Of the standard
juvenile. Cats Arabian Nights" by
the late Mrs. Abbic Morton Diaz.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
Woman SuFragists.

While men are planning and con
templating plans for the political can
paigns to be fought in Mississippi
which are to be practically on th
one-party principle (that of the whi5
man and the democracy, there i
a little band Of women who are gift
ed with the ability to see and act fo
themselves, and who consider it no
unseemly or unwomanly to themselvs
who will take hand in the game o.
politics. The fact is, the woman suf
fragists Of the state are preparing t.,
hold a meeting here on Friday ant
Saturday of this week, in response tt
a call issued some time since by Mrs
Hala Hammond Butt, of Clarksdale
President Of the Mississippi Associa
ton of Woman Suffragists. 1t is MOI
stated in the call that the ladies ars
contemplating the putting of ticker
in the field or even candidate, un
less it be for the office of Superinten
dent of Education, and this is only {,
tentative and inferential suggestion
President Butt has asked the ladie,
to get together and take up the work
Of systematizing the conditions thai
exist and take a general survey Of
the horizon. If the women in conven.
tion assembled decide that it is adj
visable to take an active hand in the
game to be played next year, ther
the plans will be laid for series d
meetings at the various centers, and
some energetic missionary work wild
be provided for.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
The Milling of Rice.

A delegation representing the rice
interests Of Louisiana and Texas were
In Washington to confer with Secre-
tary Wilson in regard to the effect
of the pure food bill, which goes into
effect Jan. l, on rice manufacture
The members of the delegation are:
c. S. Knapp, president of the Louis
lana Rice Growers Association; e,
A. Godcheaux, of Abbeville, La; S.
Ross, of Houston, Texas, and j. L.
Brousseard, of Beaumont.
Secretary Wilson gave it as his opin
ion that the present methods used
by the rice millers Of the south are
unobjectionable AMI will not be SUD
ject to change under the new laws.
He also stated that rice milled up to
January l 1907 VIII be exempt from
the provisions under the bill.
Mr. Wilson'S statement that glu-
cose can not be used for polishing
was good news to the Louisianians and
Texans, and they say that glucose
is used to a great extent by foreign
rice mills which comes into competi-
ton with American millers.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
OUR WASHINGTON
NEWS AID NOTES
ITEMS OF INTEREST BRIEFLY
CHRONICLED.
FLEET FOR PACIFIC COAST
Plan to Send Battleship to Western
Coast. Senator Perkins Urges Di-
vision of Atlantic Fleet.

A plan is under way to divide the
teet of battleships now assembled
on the Atlantic coast by sending fully
one half of them 70 the Pacific coast
station. This movement is largely
fathered by Senator Perkins Of Cali
fornia, who, while expressing himself
as not at all apprehensive Of an ap-
preaching conflict with Japan, yet be-
ieyes that our enormous Pacific coast
line should not be left practically with
out naval defense.
There are no battleships on the Pa
cific coast at the present time. The
principal units of naval defense there
are the cruisers Charleston, Chicago,
Boston, Princeton and Yorktown and
few torpedo boats. All of these YES
sells save the Charleston, are Of old
construction, and would be of very lit
tie use in a conflict with frst-class
naval power. The battleship Oregon
one Of the initial three battleships
constructed for the navy and the bat
tleship Wisconsin are at the navy
yard at Bremerton, Wn., undergoing
extensive repairs. It will be year
or more before they will be available
for service.
On the Asiatic station the naval
power is represented by four large
armored cruisers Of the West Vir-
g.nia class and the old monitors Mon
aanock, and Monterey The Monad-
mock is in reserve, with a skeleton
crew aboard, and the Monterey is OUT
Of commission at Cavite Added to
these are number Of more or less OBJ
solte gunboats for use among the Phil
ippine Islands and squadron of pro-
tected cruisers, the Baltimore, Cincin-
natl, Raleigh, Galveston, and Chatta-
nooga, These are not especially for
midable either in respect to speed or
otherwise.
Senator Perkins also believes the
naval plants at Brementon and Mare
Island should be thoroughly equipped
for the construction of battleships
and minor craft, and to this end it IS
his opinion that enc vessel of the
first class should always be under con
struction at each Of these years.
The experiments made recently by
ssle government in the construction
of the battlships Louisiana and Con
necticut by the Newport News Ship
building Company and the United
States government at the Brooklyn
navy yard, respectively, shows that
despite the handicaps imposed upon
government construction generally,
the time occupied IN the building Of
these two vessels and the expense
We're practically the same. 1t takes
time to assemble the needed skilled
labor and the necessary appliances
for the building of battleships, and
it is deemed the part of wisdom to
have such equipment as may turn
these vessels out with the least pos
sible delay, and in time of war eAa-
bic the government to repair damage
sustained in conflict and otherwise
with the maximum speed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
MISSISSIPPI STATE
HAPPENINGS
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
SECTIONS.
AN EPITO iE OF THE NEWS
Culled From Important Happenings
Throughout the State During the
Past Week and Reviewed in Brief
FOR Our Readers.
Peonage Charges.

A peonage charge was fled in the
Federal court by negro named Dan
January against James Patrick, 8
prominent Rankin county farmer who
lives about seven miles north Of Bran
don.
The affidavit alleges that January
was held in involuntary servitude,
together with his wife and six chill
dren, by man named Carter who
then sold him to Patrick for the sum
of $1090.95, alleging a debt in that
sum to be due, and Patrick refused
to release him from custody until the
debt was cancelled.
January states that he was whip.
ped by Carter with buggy trace IN
til he was bloody from head to heels
and exhibited to Commissioner Nose
ley his barred body showing huge cash.
es and welts across the flesh. He Ii
still too feeble to walk, and states that
was unable to move for ten days af
ter receiving the whipping.
Mr.. Patrick was arraigned before
Commissioner Moseley. Judge John Z
Enochs of Brandon appeared for the
defense, and Hon. W. B. Banks, as
sistant district attorney for the gov
ernment.
The evidence failed to show where
in Mr.. Patrick was in any way IN
golved in the act Of holding January
in peonage; that he had merely pur
chased debt claim from Patrick, SUP
posing that the negro was willing h
work it out, and that he knew moth
ing whatever of any cruel or inhu
man treatment that had been accord
ed the negro by Carter, anuary ad
mitted that Mr.. Patrick had Away
treated him kindly. COMMISSIONS!
Moseley then dismissed the defendant
and the Federal deputies, it is under
stood, will next endeavor to ascertain
the whereabouts Of Carter.
That the negro has been inhumanl.
treated by some person is very evi
dent from an examination of his body
The bruises and gashes on his bod.
have not yet healed, and it is believe,
that he also sustained internal inju
ries from the lashing administered.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
A Fighting Auto.

Armored trains are no novelty, or
at least they are new thing of yes
terday, not to-day. But the armored
motor car, just furnished by Bronirtz
to the Russian War Department, is
still in it's early stages. From wheels
to roof this offensive and defensive
monster of the highway is designed
to be invulnerable. The whole car
is covered with steel thick enough to
resist rifle bullets, and when in action
shutters slide up to close all the open
'ings now seen in the picture. The
car carries a large supply of gasolene
and ammunition, giving it a wide
radius of action and a deadly advan-
tage over any mob of revolving peas
ants against which It may be sent.
The rapid fire gun, mounted on the
roof, can be turned in any direction.
Rough country, as we'll as smooth,
can be traversed by this new engine
of death, which is likely to bring ter
ror to many a hapless dweller in
rural Russia in the next few months.
The wheels themselves are protect
ed by thin nickel steel bullet proof
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
Bank Revived.

The Mississippi Savings Bank and
Trust Company, banking institution
which was chartered several months
ago to be located at Meridian, is be-
ing revived and will be organized IN
few days. The concern was charter
ed about the time of the Meridian cy-
clone and the plans of the company
were disarranged; but the incorpora-
tors have recently desired to revive
the chatter and establish the concern
1t will have a capital or 100000 with
$4,000 paid in, and will be one of the
strongest institutions in the state.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
An Investigation Ordered.

No advices have been received at
the War Department regarding the
reported firing on car conductor by
soldies at Fort Barrancas, Fla. The
matter, however, unoficially was
brought to the attention of the de-
partment today, and the commanding
officer Of the fort has been called upon
for information.
Coming so soon after the affair at
Brownsville, Tex, which has received
so much attention in the public press,
army officers expressed their chagrin
at the report of the latest disturbance
Fort Barrancas, which is located
short distance from Pensacola, is re-
garded as one Of the most important
posts in the service, five companies
of the coast artillery, the Sever il,
Ninth, Fifteenth, Twentieth, and the
Twenty-second companies being sta
toned there.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
The Color of a Filipino.

The school authorities of Washing
ton have been called upon to decide
whether a Filipino is white or "col
ored." F" The problem was brought be-
fore them by Major M. F. Waltz of
the United States army, who sent a
communication asking that his Fill.
pino servant, twenty-five years of age
be admitted to the white school Of
Washington.
Major Waltz said that his servant
had been denied admission to the pub
lie schools of Atlanta on account Of
the prevailing race feeling. After
much discussion the question was re-
ferred to committee, which has not
yet reported
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
Jans Do Not Seek War.

"The japanese do not want Hawaii
or the Philippines and they do not
seek war; says Bishop Merriam c.
Harris of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, who has spent thirty-three
years in apan, and who is home on
visit.
He offered prayer in the SeNSte
and then went over to the House and
talked with the members.
There is no hard feeling toward the
United States in Japan, he said, but
an exclusion act would be resented
and regarded as unforgivable, and
might, he said, "lead to trouble" j"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

Captain j. F. Merry, immigration
Agent of the Illinois Central Railroad
is sending a list Of homeseekers week
Iy to the parish immigration leagues
along the line that are active and are
making an effort to secure some seek
ers. The immigration League of West
Feliciana Parish IS having the lisI
published SO that planters can get III
direct communication with the par
ties.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
English Educational Bill.

London.-The educational bill was
buried by premier Fampbell-Banner-
man in the House Of Commons.
After a speech Of considerable en-
phasis, defending the course of the
lower house in rejecting the house Of
lords amendments as whole and
repudiating the claim of the peers
that they haev right to lecture the
commons on the subject, the premier
announced that the government had
decided to withdraw the measure.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

The ordinary box freight car does
not appear to be very large from the
outside. close examination will
show that from the door to either
end is fully twenty feet, which means
that men employed in loading car
travel quite a distance. The time
thus consumed in loading box car
is considerable, and to reduce the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

time and labor more than half two
Minnesota men have designed the
freight carrier shown here. A glance
at the illustration will convince the
reader that by such method a great
deal of time and labor could be
saved. This freight carrier is op-
Grated by gravity. 1t is composed of
two parallel rails, the ends of which
are curved to reach the back of the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
Beer in Soldiers Homes.

beer nails IN the several branches
of the national home for disabled vol
unteer soldiers netteo profits to the
government aggregating $165, ,454 dur
ing the last year, according to the an
nual report of Col John L. Chamber
lain, Inspector General, whose annual
report to the Secretary Of War is
one of the strongest recommendations
made for the retention of the canteen
featues Of these homes.
"The beer hall l believe to be
most valuable agent in determining
the comfort, contentment, health and
general welfare Of the members. Near
ly all members ara of advanced age,
their habits are formed and fixed be-
yond possibility Of change. Their PEN
sions furnish means wherewith 10
drink, and those who desire drink car
and will get it. In the beer hall they
obtain beer of the purest and best
quality, and the amount consumed can
be and now is strictly regulated. IL
the beer hall should be abolished the
money now spent in the beer hall-in
fact much larger sum-will be speat
in the neighboring saloons and dives.
The profits which are now expended
for the pleasure, comfort and conve-
nience sad general welfare of the
members will be lost to them and will
go into the pockets of the saloon keep
ers.
Reward for Democrat.
The following letter was given out
at the White House:
"The White House,
Washington, D. c., Dec. IL, 1906
"Dear Mr.. Bonaparte-Some three
Years ago Sheriff J. l.. Merrill of
Carroll county, Ga, lost his chance
for reelection by his action in beat
ing off mob of several hundred white
people who were trying to take a ne
gro out Of Jail and put him to death.
Sheriff Merrill and his deputies fired
on the mob, killing and wounding
several men and beating the Others
off. Because OF this he was defeated
for reelection. Congressman Adamson
brought The matter to my attention,
saying that he hated to see a man
who had done such service as a
public official defeated because of the
very fact that he had rendered the
service. He told me that Governor
Terrell had offered Merrill a place,
the best he had to give, which carried
salary of $50 per month. [ told the
congressman that | thought l could
beat that and got him a place for
$1,000 year as custodian of the
grounds of the Federal prison at At
lanta. l hear he has done well. If he
has done well can't we give him a
promotion?
Sincerely yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
'EHon. Charles j. Bonaparte,
Attorney General"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
Town Without Water.

Carlsbad.;E. M.-The water works
was shut do{sh for lack of coal The
entire city was without water. The
Pecos Valley railroad has but a few
tons Of coal to run trains from North
or South unless they can get coal at
Pecos or Amarillo, Mex.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

Washington.-The president an
nounced the acceptance Of John Mitch
ell, president of the United Mine
Workers of America, as a representa-
tive of labor, and Martin Hughitt,
president Of the Chicago & North
western railroad, as a representative
Of capital, of the positions rendered
them by the president, as members
Of the board Of trustees to whom he
will convey the amount Of the Nobel
prize.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

car. On each track are small wheels,
spaced equal distances apart. In
loading the car the end of the track
on the platform is raised by supports
above the. remainder of the carrier.
1t is necessary only to start the bum
die on its journey, the wheels carry
ing it to the other end of the track
and into the car.-Philadelphia
Record
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
To Experiment With Oil.

The Bureau of Steam Engineering
Of the navy Of which Rear Admiral
Charles w. Rea is engineer lin chief,
has decided to experiment with oil as
possible fuel for United States ships
Of war.
The first test will. be made on the
Wyoming, now at Mare Island. Should
it be successful it is said at the Navy
Department oil will be substituted for
coal in a short time
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28
.Newspaner Sensations.

Colorado Springs, Colo.-Gov. Her
bert Hagerman of New Mexico,
who is spending the week in this city,
on his way home from Washington,
characterized as newspaper sensa-
tions" recent reports to the effect
that certain politicians Of New Mexico
preferred charges against him, or
have asked President Roosevelt for
his reroval from office.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

Il wonder who it was who first said
'woman's tongue is like a race
horse?'"
'.I don't know, but evidently he
wanted to say a good word for the
women"
"A good word? You mean a bad
word"
Not at ALL A race horse runs only
for few minutes each day, and then
hests. Philadelphia Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

plating, while the tires have nom
puncture proof bands
The car can seat fire persons com
foTtably, and has an average speed
of about thirty miles an hour
Hitherto the difficulty in the use
OF motors on service mas been that
they are liable to get out of order
when worked over rougn ground.
Here, however. they have solved the
difficulty by fixing motor engines to
both the front and back axles, and by
this means the car can more easily
extricate itself by its own motive
power out of a ditch or any small de-
pression-The Sphere.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

The War Department has ordered
an investigation of the report that
car conductor had been fred upon by
soldiers at Fort Barrancas, Fla.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

Congressman Bowers of Mississippi
demanded the punishment of negro
policeman at Washington for alleged
burial treatment of his son.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

Thirty-four ecclesiastical residences
occupied by archbishops or bishops,
and ifty-three seminarles have been
vacated under the French law.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

Car shortage was discussed at
length in the annual report of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

Thirteen of the fifteen creditors
suits against former Countess de Cas-
tellane were dismissed by the French
court.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

Democratic Senators will unite TO
oppose the policy of Capitalization
outlined in Secretary Roots recent
speech.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-28

Employees Of Western railroads
will file demands for Is per cent
wage increase and reduced hours.