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The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-10-26
A COMBINATION

SOMETIMES oppress the people.
gilt depends on the kind.
qThe farmer may combine and buy
goods cheap. They may combine and
get good prices for what they raise. The
money powers can raise the price of
necessanes Of life and compel the re-
duction Of products Of the farm.
ga combination of merchandise,
Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware and
Furniture that will enable the consumer
to save time and get what they want at
one place. Save money and have money
left is a good thing. Make an experii-
ment Of this as others have and seeif it
wont pay. We have the latter combii-
nation and you don't have to leave the
house to get what you want.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-10-26

While M.
the lines Enamel Ware
and will surprise
will in direction
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
LAWSON PLANNING
FOR GRANDE COUP
SAYS MEETINGS OF PoLlCYHoLD-
ERS IN NEW YORK ARE TO BE
GREAT AFFAIRs-eoEs TO CHI
CAGO.

st. Paul Mimi. February 7.-Thomas
w Lawson of Boston held a four hours
conference with Governor johnson at the
apitol today. Immediately afterwards
Mr. Lawson left for Chicago. The sub
ject of the conference was the forming
of a committee of prominent men to in
vestigate the affairs of the New York
Life and the Mutual Life Insurance COM
panies.
AT the close OF the conference Mr.. Law
son stated that his interview with Gov
ernor johnson had been very satlsfac-
tory.
Governor Johnson had consented to be
member of the committee l have in
mind" said Mr. Lawson, "and the others
who will make up part of the COM
mttee are Governor Broward of Florida.
former Attorney General Frank S. Nom
nett of Ohio, and Mr.. Fremont Older OF
San Francisco. | am not yet ready TO
announce the other names.
II have enough proxies right now to
give me voting control of the New York
Life and the Mutual Life. The compan-
les have sent out secret circulars to
agents urging them to get all the proxies
they can, and If they cannot get the
proxies they are to get the policyholders
to come to the meeting, so Lawson can
not get them. have met that move by
sending out a circular to every policy
holder urging him to come to the meet
ing and not give any more proxies.
want to get about $1,000 or 1000 men
down there where we can talk to them.
The New York Life meeting April win
be great meeting and so will the Mu-
tual on June H.
Governor johnson said to the Associa-
ted Press after the conference that he
was greatly impressed with the showing
made by Mr. Lawson
Has Mr. Lawson the necessary proxies
from poleyhodeTs to control the vot-
ing In the two big life insurance COM
panies?" was asked.
Il believe from the showing he made
this evening that he has replied the
governor. 'and 1 believe Mr.. Lawson has
card up his sleeve that Will astonish
the folks
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
L|NEVTCH At LAST
REPORTS VICTORY
General Rennenhampff Enters
Town Without BIoodshed
.REvoLUTI0NISTS SILENCED
Leaders Captured In Chta, Trans
Baikalia, Are Tried BY Drumhead
Courtmartial and
Shot.

St. Petersburg, February 7;--Gencral
Idnevitch, commander 'of the Manchurian
armies, telegraphed to the Emperor yes
terady as follows:
General Rennenkampff entered Chita,
Trans Baikalia, February 5. without
bloodshed. The inhabitants of the town
have been disarmed and work has been
resumed. Two hundred of the revolution
lists have been arrested but number of
the leaders fed. General Helshcheonikoff
the military governor OF Chita, has been
relieved of his post for inaction.
General Rennenkampff reports that the
measures taken assure a speedy pacifica-
ton of Trans Bailkalia. All is quiet
among the troops at Vladivostok and
Harbn.'
Advices received by the minister of the
interior supplement General Linevtchs $
dispatches referring to the restoration of
order of Chita. These show that the city
was in the hands of the revolutonists for
three days
The province of Trans -Bailkala, where
the peasants under the leadership of rev.
olutionists rose and raided the govern
ment ammunition, Is far from pacified
Many of the rifles have been recovered
at Chita in n damaged condition. The
captured revolutionary leaders were tried
by drumhead court martial and shot. The
telegram of the minister of the interior
added that famine is threatening Trans
Baikalia. The supplies of flour are ex-
hausted and relief measures must be i'm
mediatelY taken.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
MUTINY REPORTED
ON THE MARBLEE1EAD
Sailors Complain That They Were Not
Given Enough Shore Leave and
Had No Fresh Vegetables.

San Diego. Cal, February lit is stated
on what is believed to be good authority,
that a condition of mutiny exists among
the sailors of the cruiser Marblehead
while on her recent trip in southern wa
ters The Marblehead. Captain Mulligan,
reached this port today and anchored
apart from the other vessels of the Pa
cifc squadron now in this harbor.
While at Pachilinque it is said all but
ten of the 325 sailors refused to partici-
pate in coaling the vessel, giving as their
excuse for the action a lack of shore leave
and absence of fresh vegetables since the
cruiser was last at San Francisco. Sew
eral of the sailors were interviewed and
while none of them denied that there had
been a mutiny on board, all were averse
to discussing the affair, though several
of them admitted that the report was
correct.
Captain Mullgan said there had been
no trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
CANNOT BUILD It
IN WASHINGTON
Wallace Wants Canal Head
quarters on lSthmus
FAV0RS CONTRACT PLAN
This Would Be More EffeotuaI Because
of Red Tape Involved in the
Present Arrange
ments.
FAVORS CONTRACT PLAN

Washington, February 1.--John Findley
Wallace. former chief engineer OF the
isthmian canal commission, today con-
cluded his testimony before the Senate
canal committee, except in relation to
the type of canal, which will be taken
up after the reports of the board of con-
sulting engineers have peen made pub
lie. He said the red tape necessary to
the system involved in governmental
work compelled him to favor the contract
plan of building the canal in order to
expedite its completion.
He thought the men in charge of the
work on the isthmus should be the un-
disputed head with the governor of the
zone the second, and the man who has
charge of procuring supplies and men
third in authority. The present arrange
ments he said amounted to n chain of
masters. with the chairman of the COM
mittee an executive commissioner Mr..
Cromwell Secretary Taft and the Pres
ident grading down to Mr.. Stevens. or the
man in actual charge of operations on the
isthmus. He said Mr.. Cromwell had been
included as one of the masters for the
reason that he seemed to have certain
undisputed influence which entitled him
to be classed in the chain. Headquarters
of the commission should be on the 18TH
mus, Mr.. Wallace said, and the harder
the communication with Washington, the
less the work would be retarded. He
thought the engineer In charge was not
paid an excessive salary
Mr. Morgan suggested Mr.. Stevens was
receiving as much as all of the six sena-
tors in the committee room. and Mr..
Wallace replied:
Yes. and | presume he earns It."
Discussing rates on the Panama rail-
road, he thought there should be no clas-
sification of freight in the schedules, but
that a charge of 81 a ton should be made
He compared the Panama railroad to the
railroads of the United States as a grain
of sand to tue seashore and continued
"If this government cannot deal with
the rates on that little road in a salts
factory manner, It had better leave the
railroad systems of the United States
alone"
The hearing was adjourned until Friday
at II o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
DEATH BY SUICIDE.
Pastor Will Be Buried From Church
Where He Was Formerly Pastor.

Peoria, ILL.,, February Funeral
services for the late DR.. George Sim
mons. whose suicide created profound
sensation on Tuesday morning, will be
held from the First Baptist church, in
which the dead man was pastor, at 10
O'Clock Friday morning.
Coroner Baker concluded his inquest
this afternoon and the jury returned
simple verdict of death from cyanide
of potash. IN, taken with suicidal intent.
A mass meeting of the depositors of
the Peoples Savings bank, of which DR..
Simmons was chief owner, was held
in the lower end of the city tonight,
and a report made there indicates that
the bank is in good condition and will
pay from 80 to 100 cents on the dollar.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
RECOMMENDS PARDON.
Meriwether's Case Is Now In Hands of
the President.

Washington February 7.-Secretary
Bonaparte today recommended to the
President the pardon of Midshipman
Minor Meriwether, Jr., convicted OF
hazing and sentenced to dismissal from
the naval academy. The recommends
tion says there is room for reasonable
doubt as to whether the acts were
committed with criminal intention, and
that the accused stood on his head and
performed various nonsensical acts in
the presence of the same midshipmen
wnom he is accused of hazing. A rec
ommendation for clemency was .ap-
pended by the court to its sentence of
dismissal.
No further action will be taken by
the navy department until the Presi-
dent reaches decision as to whether
Meriwether shall be pardoned.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
South Alabama is Shocked by
Awful Crime > : :;
.BlOODHOUNDS ON TRAIL
Band of Determined Citizens Sets Out
to Avenge the Killing of J. M.
Christmas and Family
Near Cottonwood.

Dothan February 7.-Welterng in a
big pool of blood, with their heads almost
severed from their bodies, the corpses
of ]. M. Christmas. his wife and little
child, were discovered at an early hour
this morning at their home near Cotton
wood. Ala. between that little town and
Cambellton, Fla. The crime was commit
ted some time during last night and 1t IS
generally believed that robbery was the
motive. as Mr.. Christmas was considered
man of means There is no direct clue to
the perpetrators. and the information
reaching Dothan is rather meagre
Horrified in the extreme, the little COM
munity where Christmas lived took i'm
mediate action. A telegram was sent to
Mariana, Fla. asking for bloodhounds,
and a reward of $500 was offered The
sheriff's office at Dothan was notified and
deputies from here have gone to the
scene.
Feeling in the neighborhood of Cot
tonwood is said to be intense. and it is
not improbable that if the murderers are
caught they will be lynched Some terri
BILE crimes have darkened the history of
that vicinity, but none quite so revolt
ing as this, and the people who have
known Mr.. Christmas and his family as
neighbors all their lives, are possessed
with anger which may prove unrestran-
able in the event the slayers are taken
into custody.
Information is anxiously awaited here
regarding the pursuit of the criminals.
A hard rain has been falling since mid
night and the downpour seems to be gen.
eral over this immediate section This will
in all probability make the work of the
bloodhonnds difficult and may wash away
the traces of tracks
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
RACE TRACK MOGULS
FORM Big COMBINE
PROPERTY WORTH $4,000 is IN
VOLvED IN DEAL WHICH HAS
BEEN PUT THROUGH BY LOUIS
VILE TURFMEN.

Louisville. February 1.-The Courier
Journal tomorrow will say:
The largest turf combination ever form
ed in this part of the country, an organi-
cation involving property worth 100000.
has been formed by Mat, J. Winn, pres
ident of the American Turf association;
John Rhinock, Congressman from the
Sixth district of Kentucky, and Edward
Corrigan, owner of the Kansas City, Haw-
thorne and City Park. New Orleans, race
tracks.
The details of this scheme were given
out last night by President Winn. The
final details have not yet been arranged,
but there is no doubt that the deal viii
go through, according to President Winn
and Congressman Rhinock, who is the
chief owner Of the Iatonia track prop
erty. and also heavy stockholder in the
City Park race track at New Orleans, and
other race track property. According to
the statements of Messrs. Winn and Rhi-
mock last night. within the next few
days there will be formed company
which will buy outright the following
race track property: Churchill Downs,
Louisville; Latonia race track. covlngton;
City Park track New Orleans; Kentucky
Association track, Lexington. This does
not mean the obliteration of the American
Turf association which controls the prin-
cipal race tracks, with tile exception of
New Orleans now in operation in the
west The, four tracks are simply going
to combine and pool their interest, the
entire outfit to be owned or controlled by
one company or set of stockholders, while
Nashville. the Canadian tracks and other
race courses affiliated with the American
Turf association will be controlled by and
affiliated with the parent body.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
DANGER OF STRIKE
AFFECTS MARKETS
Some Furnaces Have With
drawn Quotations for Present
PIG IRON is MORE QUIET
Cold Weather Has Made 1t More Diff
cult to Deliver Coke and the
Price Ranges
Higher.

Clevelafd, Ok ebri14y 1.=-a'he IRON
Trade Review tomorrow will say:
The grave danger of a general strike OF
coal miners has introduced an element
of uncertainty into the market. A few
furnaces have withdrawn quotations pend
ing the settlement of the question wheth-
er there is to be 6. strike but In many
quarters strong hope is still entertained
that peace will prevail between the OPP
orators and their employees. While con-
sumers of pig iron would be embarrassed,
furnace interests would probably suffer
more severely. 1t is not believed, how
ever, that the immediate effect of strike
would be important because very large
quantities of coal and coke have been
stored.
The pig iron market is very quiet, with
signs here and there of weakness but
for the most part prices are well main
tanned.
The furnace men, who realize that there
is much to justify the present position of
consumers in not buying freely, are as
rule refusing TO make lower quotations.
The Ferro-Manganese market gives
promise of the demand being more nearly
met in the future than for several months
as the prospect Of their resumption of
shipments from the principal source of
supply OF European ores, the Caucasus.
is favorable. A contract was made in
New York within a few days at 800 for
second half delivery.
The demand for structural material con-
tinues very strong, especially in New
York, Pittsburg and Chicago Owing TO
the cold weather Of the past few days it
has not been so easy to deliver coke, and
the price is higher.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
soLLoeuB's PLAN WORKS.
is Rounding Up All the Russian As-
tators In Riga.

st. Petersburg. February 7.-Reports
from the Baltic provinces say that Gov
ernor General Sollogub's plan of sweep
ing the revolutionists and their leaders
from the provinces is rapidly approach
ing completion. The columns of troops
commanded by General Orloff. which
have gradually closed In on Riga, are
driving the nivonian revolutionists be-
fore them.
The advance guards have arrived at
the outskirts of the city and the col
umns are approaching from the south.
The trap will soon be sprung and the
revolutionary chiefs who are being
gathered by the hundreds into Riga
will be captured The disorders now
are confined chiefly to the northern
part Of Courtland and Riga.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
SENATOR PETTUSIS
NONE THE WORSE
Member of Senate Who Was Formerly
Physician Responsible for
Sensational Reports.

Washington, February z-(special)-
Senator Pettus of Alabama, spent the
none the worse for his accident of Mon
day. The reports of his serious condition
appearing in the papers OF yesterday are
said to have had their origin in the
curbstone opinion of a distinguished re-
publican senator. who was formerly a
physician, but who has not been engaged
In the practice of medicine for nearly a
score OF years.
He was told that Senator Pettus was
not feeling well and called TO see him
in the emocratic cloak room. The DOCTOR
In the democratic cloak room. The doctor
afterward bulletins were being sent to the
papers that Senator Pettus case was
homeless
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
Funds for Continental Hall.

Washington, February THE ma
tional board of the Daughters of the
Revolution today made various prelim-
mary arrangements for the general
congress next spring. The ways and
means committee reported that it had
received many promises for support Of
the continental hall fund. A pledge of
$1,000 has been received from Mrs.
Jacob Fl. Schiff for completing the H.
brary. providing like sum can be
raised. other contributions have been
promiesd from Pennsylvania. New
York. Kentucky and Delaware. The
treasurer reported nearly $4,000 in the
treasury.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
EFFORT FOR PEACE IN
CASTELLANE FAMILY
But the Countess Is Said to Have Re-
fused to Allow Simply Judi
cia Separation.

Paris. February 7.--Strong efforts con-
tinue to be made in behalf of the Castel-
lane family to bring about the abandon
ment of the divorce suit begun by the
Countess Boni De Castellane formerly
Anna Could, but up to the present the
desired result has not been achieved. An
attempt made to obtain the countess as
sent to a judicial separation without an
absolute divorce has also peen unsuccess-
full, and probably the case will pursue
the ordinary course, coming up for
hearing at no fixed date. but it is ex-
pected that it will be heard three weeks
hence.
The pronouncement of decree dissolves
any contract relative to marriage settle
ments. each party resuming control of
their own property. A divorced woman
may not remarry within ten months after
a judgment, while an appeal against
decision must be lodged within six
months
A report which cannot be confirmed
says that Count Boni has entered a coun-
ter plea claiming heavy damages.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
Fertilizer Strike Ends.

Charleston, S. c., February THE
strike of the laborers in the phosphate
and fertilizer mills here was ended to-
day. when the employers agreed to the
demands of the men for $1.25 per day.
an increase of 25 cents. Nearly all the
mills in Charleston were affected by
the strike. which involved about fifteen
hundred laborers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
Nominations Confirmed.

Washington. February THE Senate
in executive session today confirmed the
following nominations:
Major General John c. Bates, L. S. A..
to be lieutenant general.
Brigadier General Adolphus w. Greeley.
chief signal officer to be major general.
Colonel John Allen to be chief signal
officer with rank of brigadier general.
Postmasters-Lou C. J. Hollis
ter. Ponchatoula.
Texas: r. Carpenter. Franklin
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
IOHNSCN'S SENTENCE
WILL BE COMMITTED
Governor Jelks Announces That He
VIII Show CIemeney In the Case
of Gadsden Negro.

Montgomery, February 7.-Governor
Jelks tonight announced that he would
compute the sentence of VIII Johnson.
a nero, to life Imprisonment. Johnsons
execution was set for next Friday at
Gadsden. lie was convicted of the mlN-
der and outrage of Mrs. Sarah Jane
Smith a white woman. Two of his COM
panions in the crime. Jack Hunter and
Vance Garner. already have been hanged.
On the gallows each declared that John
son was not present at the murder and
oufrage
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
LEAVE 40 CHILDREN.

Salt Lake City. Utah, February
Mariner w. Merrin. an apostle
OF the Mormon church. died late
last night at Richmond. Utah, aged
" years. Apostle Merrill had twice
been subpoenaed as witness be-
fore the Smost investigation I'm
Washington. Apostle Merrill was
one of the vealthiest men in the
Mormon chusc CHI. He had been mar
ried nine times. and at the time of
his death had seven living wives.
He leaves forty-nine sons and
daughters, I40 grand children, and
several great grandchildren.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
Young Man Commits Suicide.

Americas, Ga. February Eugene
Moore, 26 years old, manager for a
prominent cotton firm. committed sui
eide here early today by shooting him
self In the head with revolver. No
cause is known for the self-murder.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
Physician Kills HlmesIf.

Toccoa, Ga, February 7.--Dr. X. II.
Hutcherson. a well-known physician.
killed himself here this evening. He
had been in bad health for several
years. but none of his friends believed
that he contemplated suicide.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
DIXIE FLYER IN WRECK.

Macon, February STRAINS Nos. 4
and Dixie fyer) Central of Geor-
gia railroad, colided near Forsyth.
Ca, few minutes after midnight.
No details obtainable yet. but sew
eral are reported hurt
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
Leaves LOOphOIs for BaIfOui 10
Come Through
STILL AGITATES TARIFF
Bafour Accedes to Chamberlain
Wish for a General Meeting of
the unionist Party to Be
Held This Month.

London, February IA. j. Balfour has
finally acceded to Joseph Chamherlain's
wish that a call be made for a general
meeting of the unionist party. which it
Is expected will be fixed for February
10 though details have not yet been set
tied. In the meantime Mr.. Chamberlain
has issued an important manifesto which
whilst accentuating rather than lessen
ing the party tension, still leaves Mr..
Balfour a bridge over which to cross into
the tariff reform camp.
Otherwise beyond exactly defining Mr..
Chamberlains position. the letter leaves
matters much as they were before The
Chamberlain newspaper organs this morn
ing apparently assume that Mr. Balfour
will cross the bridge for they head MIR.
Chamberlain's letter "rhe Crisis Ends"
"A United Party" etc. and editorialze
In the same strain. The suggestion. how
ever, is made by the Chronicle that Mr.
Chamberlain has abandoned the frontal
attack on Mr.. Balfour In favor of an
enyeloping movement in an attempt to
capture the party machinery.
Will Not Abandon Agitation.
That Mr. Chamberlain has no idea of
abandoning tariff agitation. is shown by
his declaration of an intention to form
his own parliamentary group. He also
i'm his letter suggests that the questions
of social reform now arising will re-
qure large revenues. the raising Of which
may be indirectly connected with tariff
reform policy. This is regarded as a bid
for the support of the new labor party.
In his letter which is addressed to
Lord Ridley, conservative, and formerly
home secretary. Mr. Chamberlain repu-
dates the notions that he Is candidate
for the leadership of the unionist party.
He says all that there is in question, s
which policy the unionst party proposes
to adopt for the future. 1t is absolutely
untrue mat any ultimatum has been pre-
sented to Mr. Balfour ON this subject or
to any one else He asks for a meeting
of the party in order that there may be
a frank and friendly discussion of the
question because Ito me it always SEEM
ed essential to successful leadership that
the leader be thoroughly acquainted with
the views and wishes Of his followers"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-02-08
Day of Dramatic Details.

Washington. February 7-CBy the AS
sociated Press. To-day for the first time
In many years the Senate chamber was
made the scene of an effort to admins
ter party discipline to a member of that
body, and the occurrence was one of so
many dramatic details that the many wit
nesses will not soon forget 1t. Mr.. Pat
terson was the subject of the effort. and
Mr. Bailey, TO whom in the absence of
lcontinued on Tanth Paae)